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"All new lows, all the time." ~ Madison

Because real men work on things. Most importantly, themselves.

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'IF" by Rudyard Kipling
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

• γνωθι σαυτóν - Temet Nosce - Know Thyself

• “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. For when you look long enough into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.”
~~ Nietzsche

• "Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting"
~~ Shakespeare, Henry V

• "You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
~~ Michael Jordan

• "Every man dies - Not every man really lives"
~~ William Ross Wallace

• "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
~~ Goethe

• "Before you speak, consider if it would be an improvement upon silence."
~~ Bajputi

• "Don't take life so seriously, you'll never make it out alive..."
~~ Barry R. Basse (My Father)

• "Never trust a man who reads only one book."
~~ Arturo Perez-Reverte

• “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.”
~~ Auric Goldfinger, James Bond nemesis.

• "Disce quasi semper victurus; vive quasi cras moriturus."
[Learn as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.]
~~ Anonymous

• "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'w00 h00! What a ride!'"
~~ Unknown

Because I still have more work to do yet:

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To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better,
whether by a wonderful child, a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded .....

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (or more likely, Bessie Stanley)
{Pilfered from Ms. Mary - Thanks!}