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@torunn said
Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots – but you have to play the ball as it lies." - Bobby Jones
Golf is a good walk, spoiled.
-- Mark Twain, IIRC

Torunn

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"Worrying won't stop the bad stuff from happening, it just stops you from enjoying the good."

Torunn

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I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.

Meryl Streep

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STARMERGEDDON

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“Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity”

- Albert Einstein

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“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon, he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath- breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.“

Thomas De Quincy.

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“When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

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If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad. - Willie Nelson

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"90% of all people don't know what percent the rest of the people are."-A.W . Watts

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Someone will always be prettier.
Someone will always be smarter.
Someone will always be younger.
But they will never be you.
- Freddie Mercury

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Peace is not the absence of conflicts, it is the ability to cope with conflicts.

(attributed to Mahatma Gandhi)

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@ponderable said
Peace is not the absence of conflicts, it is the ability to cope with conflicts.

(attributed to Mahatma Gandhi)
One for people to remember when considering these forums.

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"For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate."

Margaret Heffernan

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Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Isaiah 5:11

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"I think youngsters need to start thinking about what kind of world they going to leave for me and Keith Richards."


--- Willie Nelson


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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” - George Bernard Shaw

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