Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

-Marianna Williamson

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

"Every time a football player goes to play his trade he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization - an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win - to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there - to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win.

"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

"I don't say these things because I believe in the 'brute' nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has to work his heart out in a good cause and he's exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

--Vince Lombardi

Perhaps its fate that today is the 4th of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution -- but from annihilation.

"If you strive for perfection, you shall achieve excellence" Sun Tzu -The Art of War

Naggers

" I say we pull a number 6 on 'em!"

"What's a number 6?"

"We go a ridin into town a whompin and a whoopin every living thing within an inch of it's life, except the women-folk of course!"

"You gonna spare the women folk?"

"Hell no! we gonna rape the **** outta them right after the #6 dance!"

If what you did yesterday still looks good to you today, then you ain't done **** today.

You cannot think your way to right action;
You can only act your way to right thinking.

(In other words, "Just do it.")

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As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant for you. Hate. Hate.

I hate this outlook. Not everyone can win, in fact most people lose. Basing your own character on how you perform against others is very lacking in insight. The challenge is to do the very best you can. For many this will never be good enough to achieve wide recognition...If you don't succeed within externally defined parameters (ie, the game), that does not mean you have not achieved. It is literally impossible for many people to win at certain things. Judging them as losers as a result of this is blind elitism at its worst.

My dad always had a nice saying, "Get the **** outta the way you little brat, I'm trying to watch tv." That ol' man sure has a place in my heart.

every warrior must train - sun tzu

Until someone pointed out it was a comedy...

"You can do it, put your ass into it." -- Gloria Steinem

“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
Friedrich Engels

"It's the natural instinct of man to have that competitive drive, you know, to want to be the elite. And I ain't just talking bout rapping, I'm talking bout all walks of life. You see, I'm a street n*gga and I do this for my street n*ggas that can relate. You know, them n*ggas that wake up in the morning and know in they heart of hearts that they got more money than everybody in the f*ckin city. You know what that feels like? Haha. I do. Roll with the winners n*gga."

Re-Up Gang, "Intro", We Got it For Cheap Vol. 3(from 0:55)