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    Default Best Advice

    What is the best piece of advice you have been given?
    Who offered the advice?
    How has it affected you?

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    Most memorable..... My grandfather once told me to never trust a woman who paints her toes! I got engaged to one such woman and she ended up leaving me and took about 85 grand with her.

    Second one..... My old man , Better to have a gun and not need one than to need a gun and not have one. I use this philosophy when considering shed acquisitions.

    Pete
    If you are never in over your head how do you know how tall you are?

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    When I got my motorbike licence a family friend who has been riding bikes for longer than I've been alive offered the following advice;

    "Always ride as though you are invisible. Always assume that other traffic cannot see you."

    I reckon it saved me from a couple of incidents.
    Retired member

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    Pick up your pen and write! Or, get started, take the first step, give it a go...

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    my mentor told me,, talk is not cheap its free
    give out compliments willy nilly
    what a great idea for a thread well done
    smile and the world will smile with you

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    "money does not bring happiness"

    from my Himalayan mountain monk
    How much wood could the woodchuck chuck if the woodchuck could chuck wood?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dean View Post
    "money does not bring happiness"

    from my Himalayan mountain monk
    It sure as hell keeps you from starving. And it is usually the ones that don't have any and no hope of ever getting it will tell you that so as to justify not having any themselves.

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    From Dad
    " Never say cop this , always say cop that"
    " Never threaten anyone , and if your threatened settle it there and then"


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    The trouble with life is there's no background music.

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    From my father many years ago, his advice on 'meeting' women:

    " Son, you need to sleigh a few dragons before you get to the princess"




    BTW I married the princess
    I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

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    Bend your knees and straighten your back when you lift!
    Some old fella I worked along side of when I was young and impressionable.
    Despite a lot of hard yakka my back is still good.

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    Don't pick your nose when you're holding a chisel.

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    Better to have tried and failed
    than to have failed to have tried

    Never give up
    100% of all non-smokers die

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDub View Post

    BTW I married the princess
    Joel you old romantic, wake up son, your giving the rest of us a bad name.

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    All computers are the same. When you pull the power plug, they all stop. (Before battery powered lap tops)

    Believe nothing of what you hear and only 10% of what you read.

    When in a skid, clutch and steer. (If an automatic transmission, pop into neutral)

    Address everyone that you don't know by Sir or M'am.

    You can accomplish more by being polite than by being rude.

    As a teenager, a preacher told me that "Everyone has or will be going through what you are experiencing and you don't have to be angry about it."

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    Two from my old dad
    If you want something thats good...... for nothing, thats exactly what you will get - something thats good for nothing.
    and
    A good labourer is ALWAYS worthy of his hire.
    also
    check out my signature, very good advice

    cheers
    Bruce C
    Never play leapfrog with a Unicorn

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