Excellent Mark Twain quote

[Warthog]

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

This really fits into my life right now.

"Why do you want to go into the military right now???"

"You should go to college."

"Oh, you're a senior in high school?"
[followed by]
"What college are you going to?"




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[pickel]

I had the same senerio when I was in your shoes. When Castro was setting up missles in Cuba, it really pissed me off and I joined the US Navy.Although, by the time I got aboard ship, the crisis was over, but I've never regretted a day and it made a changed person out of me. And now , more than ever , with our forces being spread so thin all over the globe, joining a branch of the service would be the patriotic and noble thing to do. I went to college long after my service and it complimented my career . Do what's in your heart and it may seem like you might have not made the correct chioce at first, but , believe me, after time goes on , you'll come to realize you did the right thing. Anchors Away!!

the pickel

Wart, here's another quote:

“This above all: to thine own self be true” – Shakespeare



Hi pickel - nice to see you around again

[Thud]

Mark Twain rules.

[nunyadam]

He also said

all you need in life is ignorance and confidence and then success is sure.

And one of his that fits me.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper but once lost , I could not find it with a dog.

nunya

[CERuppel]

I think that last quote would fit us both, Nunya.

And as for joining the service, my family has a seriously long tradition that way. It's not considered mandatory or forced on you, but somewhere in the extended family there is someone (usually multiple) in the service. My chance was wasted due to medical making me unfit for my chosen branch (marines). Wish I had had the sense to join anyway, the benefits would have been alot more than what I got on my own...

"When an audience do not complain, it is a compliment, & when they do it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence."


SALOON KEEPER
"In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper, occupied the same level in society, and it was the highest. The cheapest and easiest way to become an influential man and be looked up to by the community at large, was to stand behind a bar, wear a cluster-diamond pin, and sell whisky. I am not sure but that the saloon-keeper held a shade higher rank than any other member of society. His opinion had weight. It was his privilege to say how the elections should go. No great movement could succeed without the countenance and direction of the saloon-keepers. It was a high favor when the chief saloon-keeper consented to serve in the legislature or the board of aldermen. Youthful ambition hardly aspired so much to the honors of the law, or the army and navy as to the dignity of proprietorship in a saloon. To be a saloon-keeper and kill a man was to be illustrious."


Many more Samuel L. Clemens gems here: http://www.twainquotes.com

[Sweet]

Dear Warthog,
With your upcoming endeavour, you have my utmost respect and very highest regards. Sure, I will probably worry bout you. You have chosen a noble path that will enrich your life. The honor is yours to have and hold in your heart. I wish you the very best. I know you'll let us know when the time comes for you to leave here for awhile..... Sweet

[MegalosSkylaki]

Shahani,

"As the Head of all illegal activities , I'm a well respected figure here in Casablanca"

--Sidney Greenstreet, in Casablanca

Ahhh ! How true !

DOOOG

Check out if there is a career path where you can go to College while in the Service.

Also, some Colleges still have ROTC, like Colein Powell attended here at City College of New York, where you can get paid while going to College and graduate an Officer.

Wish I could attend the Naval Language School in Monterrey, CA. Or the Military Intelligence School in Ft. Hueltolca, near Sierra Vista in AZ (nice town--we visited it, glorious desert/mountain views.

The Armed Force are among the largest educational institutions in the US. A friend of mine whent to language school as a Spec 5 to learn Russian.

Used to live near Columbia University when the (well some ) students took over the University about various issues among them the presence of Naval ROTC. The University later dropped it.

Now many of these students prevented a ROTC graduation previously by blocking the entrance. Jerky University Fathers, instead of having them immediately arrested and expelled, chose to convene a student committee to figure out what the University rules were about that or such.

Heck, they reaped what they sowed. Don't think you'll see that in NYC now.

DOOOG

[MegalosSkylaki]

P.S. I can see that Shahani--or nobody else for that matter--has read The Complete Edited Works of MegalosSkylaki, Part III: The Puppy Years .

But then, I'm still working on it

And Warto remember in Psychology there is something called "functional fixedness" where in people fail to see a string can be an extension to a lightbulb pull chain to solve a problem because it is the room being used as a picture frame wire.

Remember, there is more than one way to skin a humanoid (Cats love me for that !)

DOOOG

Erratum: Vol. I is The Puppy Years .
Vol.III: The Declining Years has been edited.
I like writing in reverse.