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    "People were stupid before the Internet. They just didn't put it on YouTube."
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    "Don't fight your enemy, show him how to fight himself"
    "When you know how to fight, you are never in a fight. Fighting is for those who don't know what they are doing."
    "Listen before you speak, look before you leap, and don't scream during an ambush."
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    "The higher up the tree the monkey climbs, the more you see its... erm... posterior."
    - Paraphrased Japanese Proverb
    Knitting my way through life, one purl of wisdom at a time.

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    "Don't risk jail-time to steal two hundred thousand dollars. That's not worth it. When you can steal two million, or two billion, then you risk it".
    -Anon

    "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future"
    -Yogi Berra

    "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win"
    -Sun Tzu

    "The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand."
    -Sun Tzu

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    "There is no such thing as a foolproof system because somewhere there is always a systemproof fool." --my friend at University

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    "Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead!”
    -Jaya Ballard, task mage

    "Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire!"
    -Jaya Ballard, task mage

    "Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza!"
    -Michelangelo

    "There’s no obstacle that can't be overcome with the judicious use of high explosives."
    -My uncle

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    'One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged'
    Heinrich Heine

    'Take more than your fair share of objectives and you will be given more than your fair share of objectives to take.'
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    Put down that shovel.

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    "There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt." Harry Dresden
    "A man once said do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger. Tolkien had half of that right. **** subtlety." ~ Harry Dresden

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    Never get your wise sayings on the Internet.

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    Charlie, there are a million things in this universe you can have and there are a million things you can't have. It's no fun facing that, but that's the way things are.
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    Money is the goal of people who don't know what they want it for yet.
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    "What is the worst that can happen? Accept it - if inevitable, be willing to have it so. Now, calmly proceed to improve on the worst."

    "The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if your cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there."

    "We cannot command our emotions, but we can, our actions, which in turn regulate our emotions."

    "A man will find that, as he alters his thoughts towards things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him."
    -or, alternatively-
    "Let a man radically alter his thoughts and he will be astonished at the radical transformation it will effect in the material conditions of his life."


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    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheThan View Post
    "Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead!”
    -Jaya Ballard, task mage

    "Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire!"
    -Jaya Ballard, task mage

    "There’s no obstacle that can't be overcome with the judicious use of high explosives."
    -My uncle
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    "Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
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    Great analysis KA. I second all things you said
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    Great analysis KA, I second everything you said here.
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    If I have a player using Paladin in the future I will direct them to this. Good job.
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    Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain: Tell me something, Buster. What do you think of Negroes?
    Pvt. Buster Kilrain: Well, if you mean the race, I don't really know. This is not a thing to be ashamed of. The thing is, you cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a pea-wit. You take men one at a time.
    Errare humanum est
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheThan View Post
    "There’s no obstacle that can't be overcome with the judicious use of high explosives."
    -My uncle
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    As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero.
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    "...What's normal is whatever works for you."
    -Alec Hardison, Leverage

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    You can have a thousand reasons to want peace. But it won't matter, as long as the enemy has a single reason to want war.

    If you want to understand politics, stop talking about "the party out of power." The loser in the last election has far more power and influence than you or I will ever have. Both parties are in power.

    The reason we are always disappointed on Election Day is that we keep expecting it to be Christmas ... and it turns out to be April Fool's Day. We should really treat it like Independence Day. Only then will it become Thanksgiving.

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    Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
    "There is no such thing as a foolproof system because somewhere there is always a systemproof fool." --my friend at University
    Does your University friend do IT helpdesk work, by any chance? Because I know a few "systemproof fools" by name & employee#...

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    "Sometimes, the knights are the monsters."
    -one of George R. R. Martin's characters in the Song Of Fire & Ice series

    "Patience is the dullest of virtures - but often the most useful."
    -allegedly a Russian saying I picked up from the 2nd "Bionic Reunion" movie, either way it's served me very well over the years

    "Always remember... most riddles contain their own answers."
    -My Little Pony, the original cartoon series, and another one that has served me well ever since

    "The stranger the symptom, the more mundane the cause usually is."
    -my late father
    • Sometimes, the knights are the monsters
    • The main problem with the world? So many grownups, not enough adults.
    • Talk less; say more.
    • George R.R. Martin, Kirkman, and Joss Whedon walked into a bar. There were no survivors.
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    "**** it, do what makes you happy. Just try not to get anyone killed."
    -Dad

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dienekes View Post
    "**** it, do what makes you happy. Just try not to get anyone killed."
    -Dad
    Well, make up your mind.

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    My personal favourite:

    "Sacrificing Minions. Is there any problem it CANT' solve?"
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    "Dont screw around. You screw around too much."

    Mr Adler, South Park.
    "Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
    Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."

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    Traab is yelling everything that I'm thinking already.
    "If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."

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    All ways are good except the bad ones.
    Errare humanum est
    Live long and Prosper
    May the force be with you

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    A favorite piece of advice from my grandmother: "Wish in one hand, s*** in the other. See which one fills up first."

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    "There is no such thing as a good pun"
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    Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.

    Everything is air-droppable at least once.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay R View Post
    Never get your wise sayings on the Internet.
    The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are real. -Abraham Lincoln
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    There are only two kinds of tabletop systems: those which people always bitch about, and those which nobody plays.
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