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Monday, March 23, 2009

Wisdom 11-20

11. Overkill works.

12. Never share a cockpit with someone braver than you are.

13. If everything is going according to plan, start looking for the ambush.

14. No plan survives the first contact with reality.

15. The fuse is always shorter than you think.

16. Teamwork gives the enemy someone else to shoot at.

17. The enemy diversion you are ignoring is the main attack.

18. The shortest distance between two points is always a trap.

19. Your greatest regrets will be the things you did not do.

20. Most of the things you regret not doing would have killed you or ruined your life.

2 comments:

Marcus Tullius Tiro said...

2 additional pieces of wisdom;

21. "A man who smiles constantly is selling something that doesn't work." - George Carlin

22. "Each and every one of us is better than the worst thing we've done in life." - Rachel Maddow, from an inscription in the entryway to a state courthouse somewhere

Maxwell Evans said...

Ooh, stealing those for the next post, though they're presently going to be 25 and 26. These things rack up fast when you start looking for them.