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Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1538 Location: Rayleigh

You are getting old when the gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals.

Pammie · Joined: 30 Jun 2006 Posts: 275

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

Brian Littrell

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 887 Location: Hockley

'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?'
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Karl C · Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 1538 Location: Rayleigh

think the only answer can be

" no they isn't "

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 887 Location: Hockley

" If you have to die anyway, you might as well do it running. ..."
Bernie Boettcher
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

MM,

How is a quote about shuffling off this mortal coil motivational?

You'd never catch me being so negative (see sig).

Cheers,

John.
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"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

- Holly, ships computer, Red Dwarf

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 887 Location: Hockley

John, interesting philosophical point. However, when you reach a certain age..and your birthday cake is eaten at a session when you don't turn up (even if it is before your flaming birthday); and your biscuits are eaten by persons unknown (although Karl always appears to be chewing something)... then you start to think about the inevitable and this is a motivator....

of course it is true to say:

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive.
Joshua Bruns

rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 887 Location: Hockley

"If we don't have a go, we shall live the rest of our lives wondering if we might have made it - and knowing that only fear persuaded us from the attempt"

David Johnstone & John Hoare

(They didn't make it....)
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.

jacklarge · Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Rayleigh, Essex

MM,

More back-handed motivation. How can you sleep at night knowing your quote nearly motivated me to pedal home with a crossing-the-Atlantic sort of steely determination, until, realising the fate of the originators, I felt depressed and could hardly manage to leave the office.

Please no more motivation, my poor psyche cannot take it.

Cheers,

John
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"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

- Holly, ships computer, Red Dwarf

Mike Mason · Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 887 Location: Hockley

John, hopefully this will cheer you up a bit....

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Rgds

Mike
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'sometimes I am running so fast it appears that rocks and trees are standing still......' 'I may be slow, but you are ugly and I can train harder.' '90% is mental, the other half is physical'it's going to get a lot worse, before it gets worse'.