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Hi All,
You may have noticed I pretty frequently change my signature with a quote of someone I found that has struck a chord with me. I try to keep it somewhat pertinent to current event, but that also looks beyond, to the future. I really try to keep them positive in nature.
Another reason I don’t have a standard sign off as my “signature” is that I feel that my taking the time to sign off, and add my name is that it’s a bit more personal in nature. (If I don’t sign off at all after my response, I’m steaming hot, so fair warning…)
I’d like to invite all of you to add some quote by a poet or philosopher that you find helpful to YOUR signatures. And post them in a reply to this thread.
Mine, for the time being;
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
I’m off to watch it snow sideways.
Mark
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This is mine. In youth we learn In old age we understand Work in progress: Tombstone (Scratch) - San Francisco 2. -The Mayflower ( scratch by plan).
OcCre- Santa-Maria (Kit).
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Didn't there used to be a rule on the forum concerning signature length?
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Rank: Administration Groups: Administrator, Administrators, Forum Support Team, Global Forum Support, Global Forum Support Team, Moderator, Official Builds Joined: 24/08/2009 Posts: 1,928 Points: 5,796 Location: UK
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z8000783 wrote:
Didn't there used to be a rule on the forum concerning signature length?
There may have been, but it was not mine. From a purely practical point of view, it does increase the scrolling needed if the signature is too long, but I trust you guys to use common sense. (No posting “War and Peace” in its entirety…) 5 or so lines is cool. Best, Mark
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Well if i could get my life sorted i would use: “never put off until tomorrow what can be done today - because if you enjoy doing it today you can do it again tomorrow”. Bit “down in the dumps” as its called so despite it being a good phrase i am struggling to do snything at the moment. Tony Happy Modelling
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My long time signature is the motto of the Royal Air Force - 'Per Ardua Ad Astra' - which translates as 'Through adversity to the stars'.
One of my most favourite signatures that I have used in the past, was a message from General George S. Patton (known as Ol' Blood and Guts to his troops) to General Omar Bradley during the Battle of the Bulge in WW2, when the allies were almost surrounding the Germans at the Falaise Gap and which was as follows:
"Brad, this time the Kraut's stuck his head in the meatgrinder .... and I've got hold of the handle!"
KevPer Ardua Ad Astra
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One of my singature quote thingy is keeping two people in my memory and a few movie quotes. I do have a shorter version of it.
Namaste - R.I.P. Eva, CF took you far too early, I will never forget you!!! - "The greatest thing you will ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return -- Moulin Rouge" - Love Love Love - R.I.P. Gran, I will love you always. - Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - Fear does not stop death. It stops life. - A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Here is mine
Bryan
“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot
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