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We have a lot of intelligent people here on TBD. What are some of your favorite sayings and life principles that others here might appreciate? Give a quick summary of how this saying may impart wisdom to others.

 

Here's one:

 

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth."

 

(Meaning: Back in the old days, a person buying a horse would look in the horse's mouth to check the strength of the horse's teeth. If someone "gives" you a horse, take it and don't look inside it's mouth. Say thank you and walk away with horse in tow. What they don't tell you, though, is what if the horse has mad cow disease or some rare, devastating, contagious condition...if you take the gift horse back to your farm and he infects the rest of your farm stock, you should have checked it's mouth. So check the mouth anyway.)

 

 

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Don't **** where you eat.

 

Appreciate the little things.

 

Having money is a good thing, but time and flexibility is far more important.

That's a good one too.

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

That was excellent. Who said it?

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"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy

 

"I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." - Jerry Garcia

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