<p>Really needing to hear some right now please post !!</p>
<p>“Who dares wins”
Motto of the British SAS</p>
<p>“never fight the ninjas alone”</p>
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I counter: “Our day will come.”</p>
<p>“There’s no place like home.”</p>
<p>"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.</p>
<p>Here is another respect in which we are lucky. The universe is older than 100 million centuries. Within a comparable time the sun will swell to a red giant and engulf the earth. Every century of hundreds of millions has been in its time, or will be when its time comes, ‘the present century.’ The present moves from the past to the future, like a tiny spotlight, inching its way along a gigantic ruler of time. Everything behind the spotlight is in darkness, the darkness of the dead past. Everything ahead of the spotlight is in the darkness of the unknown future. The odds of your century’s being the one in the spotlight are the same as the odds that a penny, tossed down at random, will land on a particular ant crawling somewhere along the road from New York to San Francisco. You are lucky to be alive and so am I.</p>
<p>We live on a planet that is all but perfect for our kind of life: not too warm and not too cold, basking in kindly sunshine, softly watered; a gently spinning, green and gold harvest-festival of a planet. Yes, and alas, there are deserts and slums; there is starvation and racking misery to be found. But take a look at the competition. Compared with most planets this is paradise, and parts of Earth are still paradise by any standards. What are the odds that a planet picked at random will have these complaisant properties? Even the most optimistic calculation will put it at less than one in a million.</p>
<p>Imagine a spaceship full of sleeping explorers, deep-frozen would-be colonists of some distant world. Perhaps the ship is on a forlorn mission to save the species before an unstoppable comet, like the one that killed the dinosaurs, hits the home planet. The voyagers go into the deep-freeze soberly reckoning the odds against their spaceship’s ever chancing upon a planet friendly to life. If one in a million planets is suitable at best, and it takes centuries to travel from each star to the next, the spaceship is pathetically unlikely to find a tolerable, let alone safe, haven for its sleeping cargo.</p>
<p>But imagine that the ship’s robot pilot turns out to be unthinkably lucky. After millions of years the ship does find a planet capable of sustaining life: a planet of equable temperature, bathed in warm starshine, refreshed by oxygen and water. The passengers, Rip van Winkles, wake stumbling into the light. After a million years of sleep, here is a whole new fertile globe, a lush planet of warm pastures, sparkling streams and waterfalls, a world bountiful with creatures, darting through alien green felicity. Our travellers walk entranced, stupefied, unable to believe their unaccustomed senses or their luck.</p>
<p>As I said, the story asks for too much luck; it would never happen. And yet, isn’t it what has happened to each one of us? We have woken after hundreds of millions of years asleep, defying astronomical odds. Admittedly we didn’t arrive by spaceship, we arrived by being born, and we didn’t burst conscious into the world but accumulated awareness gradually through babyhood. The fact that we gradually apprehend our world, rather than suddenly discovering it, should not subtract from its wonder."
-Richard Dawkins</p>
<p>For a more soundbiteable quote
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
-Chuck Palahniuk</p>
<p>Taken from my AIM profile (lol)…</p>
<p>“Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.” – The Contender</p>
<p>“Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope." (Romans 5:3-4)</p>
<p>“The children the world almost break become the adults who save it.”-- Michael Dean</p>
<p>“Don’t expect anything, though. Ever. With anything. As we know, expectations are appointments with resentment. And resentments get in the way of life.” --Michael Dean</p>
<p>“You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: The stupid and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time. The envious, never.”
– The Libertine</p>
<p>“It’s not just about me and my dream of doing nothing. It’s about all of us. I don’t know what happened to me at that hypnotherapist and, I don’t know, maybe it was just shock and it’s wearing off now, but when I saw that fat man keel over and die - Michael, we don’t have a lot of time on this earth! We weren’t meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.”
- Office Space</p>
<p>“Poker, like life itself, is flexible, supple, elastic, constantly in a state of change, and nearly organic. It’s always shifting, however slight and imperceptive that shift may be, until it morphs into something you would probably not recognize if you stayed away from it for a while.”
- Lou Krieger</p>
<p>“Poker is a microcosm of all we admire and disdain about capitalism and democracy. It can be rough-hewn or polished, warm or cold, charitable and caring, or hard and impersonal, fickle and elusive, but ultimately it is fair, and right, and just.”
- Lou Krieger</p>
<p>“I believe in poker the way I believe in the American Dream. Poker is good for you. It enriches the soul, sharpens the intellect, heals the spirit, and – when played well, nourishes the wallet.”
- Lou Krieger</p>
<p>“No one ever made a dime by panicking.”
- Jim Cramer</p>
<p>If you get up one more time than you fall, you will make it through - Chinese Proverb</p>
<p>Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Eliot</p>
<p>“They misunderestimated me.” --GW</p>
<p>“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” - GW</p>
<p>“Oh, no, we’re not going to have any casualties.” -GW</p>
<p>“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” - GW</p>
<p>“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” - GW</p>
<p>“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” - GW</p>
<p>“I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe – I believe what I believe is right.” - GW</p>
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<p>Okay, I am a quote geek. Here are my current favorites </p>
<p>Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss</p>
<p>Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. Dr. Seuss quote</p>
<p>Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try! Dr. Seuss</p>
<p>Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain </p>
<p>Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln </p>
<p>I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Abraham Lincoln </p>
<p>To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>The journey is the reward.
Chinese Proverb</p>
<p>Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>Its kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney</p>
<p>“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.”</p>
<p>“Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold…”-both bob marley </p>
<p>“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”- ernest hemingway</p>
<p>“It takes a very smart fella to say ‘I don’t know the answer!’”</p>
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<li>Henry Drummond, Inherit the Wind</li>
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<p>“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” ~Michael JordanSee More</p>
<p>“Write drunk; edit sober.” - Ernest Hemingway</p>