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I'll kick off with one:

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

 Rudyard Kipling

My blog: https://rugbyl.blogspot.co.nz/

It takes wisdom to know when a discussion has run its course.

It takes reasonableness to end that discussion. 

 


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"life is too short to be nice to old people" -Agatha Raisin

Bernard Manning lives! Welcome to be New RFL, the sport's answer to the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.
 
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"Dont let the bar stewards grind you down"

Arthur Seaton "Saturday Night Sunday Morning"

Alan Sillitoe

Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor but because we cannot satisfy the rich.

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I do maintain - that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong - MORRISSEY

I know Bono and he knows Ono and she knows Enos phone goes thus 

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Anarchists have a 'bad name' in the media, not because they can point to one indiscriminate massacre by anarchists--there have been none--but because the one thing holders of power fear is that they personally should be held responsible for their own actions
 

Stuart Christie 

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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“You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.”

(Kinky Friedman)

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Royalty was like dandelions. No matter how many heads you chopped off, the roots were still there underground, waiting to spring up again.

It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”

-- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)

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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

-Mike Tyson

"I'm from a fishing family. Trawlermen are like pirates with biscuits." - Lucy Beaumont.

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31 minutes ago, Vambo said:

"There is no authority but yourself" - Crass

A mindset adopted more recently by the "Sovereign Citizen" numpties.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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1 hour ago, Futtocks said:

A mindset adopted more recently by the "Sovereign Citizen" numpties.

I'd never heard of them so I've just  googled them 😲

 

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Just now, Vambo said:

I'd never heard of them so I've just  googled them 😲

...and don't you wish you hadn't? :kolobok_biggrin:

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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37 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

...and don't you wish you hadn't? :kolobok_biggrin:

As much as I do like to expand my knowledge of things... sometimes ignorance is beneficial 😁

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"You do you." - unknown.

It's very helpful in this day and age of apparently mandatory divisive opinion.

Edit: urban dictionary disagrees;

Millennial way of passive aggressively telling someone to go f themselves.

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Never ascribe you malice that which can easily be explained by incompetence 

 

A clever person solves the problem, a wise person avoids it.

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Mine`s not a quote but a line from Robbie Burns poem " To a Mouse ". 

" an` fellow-mortal ".

It`s sums up how I feel about all the little creatures I meet when I walk around my farm or where ever I go or all of our fellow creatures in general.

 

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13 hours ago, Futtocks said:

A mindset adopted more recently by the "Sovereign Citizen" numpties.

Jeeeeez! Worth  a topic all is own!   😱😱😱😱

Bernard Manning lives! Welcome to be New RFL, the sport's answer to the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club.
 
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Life is like a siht sandwich... the more bread you've got, the less siht you've gotta eat,

Ron Banks

Midlands Hurricanes and Barrow

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