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Like AJ, mine are colourful, But I tend to live by "Train Hard, Fight Easy"
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women are like dogs!!t the older they are the easier they are to pick up!

Those who fail to prepare, are preparing to fail. Abraham Lincoln
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'we burn the fat from our souls'

Was in jarhead.....think ernest hemmingway said it, whoever he is.

used to know loads, but cant really remember atm, had a bad day.
'...An entire generation pumping gas and waiting tables; or they're slaves with white collars... Advertisements have them chasing cars and clothes, working jobs they hate so they can buy sh* they don't need...'
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Paulc83 wrote:women are like dogs!!t the older they are the easier they are to pick up!
Flo is on hols, but that's going to pick up some attention! :lol: :lol:

You have gutts mate!

I salute you!
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when referencing older women- many a good tune played on on old fiddle!
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Paulc83 wrote:when referencing older women- many a good tune played on on old fiddle!
So he comes out with another one :o Best start running now mate while youve got a head start. :evil:
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Flo's gonna clean house and not take names until the smoke clears! :P
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thats exactly what she should be doing.....cleaning the house :D
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:o :P i knew someone was going to pick on that one! I didnt mean it that way, we all know how i mean it... DONT WE!! :evil: 8)
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its all ment in jest! i didnt say i lived by these quotes just that i knew them!
someone please take this spade of me or i wont be able to climb out of this hole!
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dig upwards :D
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Lets get f*kin s*itters!

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Once heard many moons ago at RMB Deal.

Sgt PTI to 17 year old "Yoof" having problems with the 30 foot ropes in the Gym.

"If you don't get up that fecking rope E***s I'm going to rip yer fecking head off and shit in yer lungs!"

This inspiring piece of the Queens English had the desired effect and I got up to the top of the 30 foot ropes and from then on never looked back.......Just in case the bloody nutter was behind me! :D

May have been totally non PC but in them days the training teams were rather forthright and didn't mess about.

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Artist wrote:Once heard many moons ago at RMB Deal.

Sgt PTI to 17 year old "Yoof" having problems with the 30 foot ropes in the Gym.

"If you don't get up that fecking rope E***s I'm going to rip yer fecking head off and shit in yer lungs!"

This inspiring piece of the Queens English had the desired effect and I got up to the top of the 30 foot ropes and from then on never looked back.......Just in case the bloody nutter was behind me! :D

May have been totally non PC but in them days the training teams were rather forthright and didn't mess about.

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Nothing like a bit of gentle encouragement is there... :wink:

I like Mr Shakespeare from King Lear "Nothing will come of nothing" very apt saying in life. put nothing in get nothing out.
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Not quite motivational, but if you can master this, you would never need motivation ever again:

(NB: "Spirit" here roughly translates as thoughts, morale, mental state, and so on, and "Strategy" as the way of sword-fighting and the warrior)
Spiritual bearing in strategy

In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. Even when your spirit is calm do not let your body relax, and when your body is relaxed do not let your spirit slacken. Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited nor over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

The wisdom of strategy is different from other things. On the battlefield, even when you are hard-pressed, you should ceaselessly research the principles of strategy so that you can develop a steady spirit.

from A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (probably the finest swordsman ever to walk the earth)
On the other hand, I'm quite convinced that you could spend an entire lifetime trying to master that and still never succeed.

...and his nine points for those who want to follow the Way of strategy:
1. Do not think dishonestly
2. The Way is in training
3. Become acquainted with every art [every weapon skill]
4. Know the ways of all professions [not just of war, of art, music, etc]
5. Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters
6. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything
7. Percieve those things which cannot be seen
8. Pay attention even to trifles
9. Do nothing which is of no use.
I particularly like number 6 - hey, I've got a free afternoon, why not spend it learning to understand everything...
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