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The list:< br> 1. “If you borrow something, return it in better shape than you found it.”
2. “Don’t make promises when you’re happy, and don’t make decisions when you’re angry.”
3. “If you want to know a person’s character, watch how they treat people who can’t do anything for them.” [I’ve never heard this one before]
4. “A firm handshake and eye contact go a long way.”
5. “If you break it, you fix it—or pay for it.”
6. “Don’t air your dirty laundry in public.”
7. “Treat everyone like you might need their help someday.”

8. “Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean it’s right.”

9. “Work hard, but don’t forget to live.”

10. “Your word is your bond.”

These sound so strange because common sense is so lacking today.

1 posted on 07/04/2025 4:24:26 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

#2.1 “Don’t make promises while drinking.”


2 posted on 07/04/2025 4:34:10 PM PDT by dynachrome (Auslander Raus!)
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To: fwdude

Because “Common Sense” is not so common these days. That’s a terrible shame. IMO


3 posted on 07/04/2025 4:34:50 PM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS)
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To: fwdude

Nice list.


4 posted on 07/04/2025 4:38:30 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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Most of those are timeless, and hold very sound advice.

Others:
1. If you spend all day thinking of why you hate somebody or something, you have given that person or that thing power over how you live your life. Reclaim your power, and reduce their significance in your daily routine.

Said Another Way: Happiness is the best revenge!


5 posted on 07/04/2025 4:39:55 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: fwdude

Some “pieces of wisdom” from the 1960s and 70s don’t hold up, such as “If you mix Pop Rocks and soda, your stomach will explode like the kid ‘Mikey’ from the Life Cereal commercials.


6 posted on 07/04/2025 4:40:53 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Great list, too bad it’s racist now.


9 posted on 07/04/2025 4:43:58 PM PDT by JZelle
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I’m not certain if I still want to
‘Teach the World to Sing’ anymore.


11 posted on 07/04/2025 4:45:15 PM PDT by lee martell
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Nothing good happens after midnight.


14 posted on 07/04/2025 4:54:06 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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I’m in my 70’s. My Granddad taught me while in my teens to work hard learn everything you can. Once it’s in your head you own it. No one can steal it
Also
Buy ground boy. God ain’t making anymore.


15 posted on 07/04/2025 4:59:12 PM PDT by Equine1952 (MM1SS)
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During my lifetime I have seen #3 many times. I have always had a lot of respect for mentors and more especially those who help others without asking for anything in return.


18 posted on 07/04/2025 5:05:36 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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I taught my children two rules to live by.
1. Life isn’t fair.
2. If you have a job, do it to the very best of your ability.
(Regardless of whether you like it or not)


20 posted on 07/04/2025 5:12:13 PM PDT by heylady
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Steve Martin - Grandmother Song

Be courteous, kind and forgiving
Be gentle and peaceful each day
Be warm and human and grateful
And have a good thing to say

Be thoughtful and trustful and childlike
Be witty and happy and wise
Be honest and love all your neighbors
Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant

Be pompous, obese, and eat cactus
Be dull, and boring, and omnipresent
Criticize things you don’t know about
Be oblong and have your knees removed

Be tasteless, rude, and offensive
Live in a swamp and be three dimensional
Put a live chicken in your underwear
Get all excited and go to a yawning festival


21 posted on 07/04/2025 5:13:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Dad to us kids acting up in the back seat on a road trip: “Don’t start something you can’t stop.”

Dad to me when I was about to make a bad decision: “You need that like a hole in the head.”


22 posted on 07/04/2025 5:30:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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Here’s one I learned from an OG biker when I was a teen.

” Never, and I mean never, ride your bike angry “


23 posted on 07/04/2025 5:33:10 PM PDT by cuz1961 ( )
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“Treat everyone like you might need their help someday.”

But don’t be a pushover either.


25 posted on 07/04/2025 5:39:30 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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I heard a version of #2 the other day regarding checking out a potential girl friends personality.

Take her to dinner, but before arriving tell the waiter to intentionally make a mistake with her order.

So when you arrive at the restaurant with her, if she orders chicken, the waiter will giver her a burger. The goal is to see how she treats the waiter for making a mistake.


26 posted on 07/04/2025 5:40:50 PM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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“Pray as if everything depended on God; then work as if everything depended on you.”


27 posted on 07/04/2025 5:50:51 PM PDT by FatherofFive (we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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Universal solid wisdom from 3000 years ago comes from the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible.


31 posted on 07/04/2025 5:59:06 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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Never go with a hippie to a second location.


32 posted on 07/04/2025 6:00:22 PM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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5. “If you break it, you fix it—or pay for it.”

I thought the phrase was "If you break it, you own/buy it."

John Kerry famously mangled the phrase during a debate against George W. Bush when he said "If you break it, you fix it" when referring to the Iraq War.

-PJ

33 posted on 07/04/2025 6:00:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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