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A Little Advice for Life from a brilliant man.


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"Use your gifts and your talents to greatest possible effect while you can. Spread joy wherever possible. Laugh at jokes. Tell jokes. Make puns and bugger the embuggerances. Read books. Read my books. You might like them. You might find something else you like even more than them. Look for these things in life.

Question authority. Champion good causes. Speak out against injustice. Do not tolerate bullies or bigots or racists or anti-intellectuals or the narrow-minded. Use your education to challenge them. Broaden their perspectives. Make the world you interface with a happier place.

These are your choices. Choices you have been fortunate to have been given, so don’t waste them while you have them. Don’t look back in years to come and wish you had grasped a fleeting opportunity. Grasp it now with both hands, Live. Strive. Love."

 

Sir Terry Pratchett, 2014

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Damnit...

 

For the sake of Terry Pratchett, I'm standing up from my PC right now and leaving to take care of an issue I've been putting away for far too long already.

 

See you around~

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Damnit...

 

For the sake of Terry Pratchett, I'm standing up from my PC right now and leaving to take care of an issue I've been putting away for far too long already.

 

See you around~

See yah!

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Life that lives is life successful, and success is the breath of its nostrils. -Jack London

 

“We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.” –Theodore Roosevelt

 

“Who—only let him be a man and intent upon honor—is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?” –Seneca

 

“It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.” Frederick William Robertson

 

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.” –Benjamin Disraeli

 

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. – Theodore Roosevelt

 

Just some quotes for you. I thought they might be of interest.

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