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| ====== Notable Quotes ====== | ====== Notable Quotes ====== | ||
| - | This collection of quotes comes mainly from [[http://xlforum.net/modules/Jig/index.php|XLFORUM]] members. | + | This collection of quotes comes mainly from [[https://www.xlforum.net/|XLFORUM]] members. |
| ====== XLForum ====== | ====== XLForum ====== | ||
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| - If you can't afford to do it right the first time, what makes you think you can afford to do it twice? (shovithead) | - If you can't afford to do it right the first time, what makes you think you can afford to do it twice? (shovithead) | ||
| - What good is a pinch of HP when you can't finish the race? (wedge) | - What good is a pinch of HP when you can't finish the race? (wedge) | ||
| - | + | - Success is the mitigation of failures. There is zero success if there were zero failures. (DR Dick) | |
| - | + | - If you find yourself disagreeing with what you are being taught, either you are making a mistake and/or your teacher is. \\ Pursuing your questions to their logical end is the key to discovery, while making a leap of faith (simply believing what you are told) is an act of avoidance: \\ (escaping the discomfort of confusion and uncertainty at the expense of a deeper learning experience). \\ This is an exchange no student should ever feel they must make. (Tony R. Kuphaldt) | |
| ==== Diagnostics ==== | ==== Diagnostics ==== | ||
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| - Sometimes one's only purpose in life is to serve as an example to others. (JonesL) | - Sometimes one's only purpose in life is to serve as an example to others. (JonesL) | ||
| - Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. (JonesL) | - Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. (JonesL) | ||
| + | - Who needs a horn, when you have a finger. (smokey 2) | ||
| ==== Prophetic ==== | ==== Prophetic ==== | ||
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| - Do you ever wonder where the power of a simple word like "if" stops? (dejomo) | - Do you ever wonder where the power of a simple word like "if" stops? (dejomo) | ||
| - When you quit living, you are already dead. \\ Johnny was a good ole boy, he never romped or played. He never smoked, he never drank nor even kissed a maid. \\ So of course when Johnny passed, the insurance was denied. They said since he had never lived, he couldn't have ever died. (Likemlouder) | - When you quit living, you are already dead. \\ Johnny was a good ole boy, he never romped or played. He never smoked, he never drank nor even kissed a maid. \\ So of course when Johnny passed, the insurance was denied. They said since he had never lived, he couldn't have ever died. (Likemlouder) | ||
| + | - If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail (paraphrased from Dr. Abraham Maslow, Psychology of Science, 1966). | ||
| ==== Had Enough ==== | ==== Had Enough ==== | ||
