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* I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to. - J. R. "Bob" Dobbs
* The road to hell is paved with good intentions
* You can hope in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills the fastest. - My dad.
I always loved Frank Herbert's quote about fear in Dune : “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” In fact, this quote resonates with me so much that I've…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
He presumably didn't say it in Latin though ;-)
He may well have never said it at all :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgacus
As an aside: Agricola's army is supposed to have camped on the hill where my house is!
I always loved Frank Herbert's quote about fear in Dune : “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” In fact, this quote resonates with me so much that I've…
If that quote resonates with you, then you've never felt true fear.
-Instructor at a field bus training course I did sometime around 2000.
- Fall 7 times, stand up 8