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I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.
Louise Hay – 1926-2017 – Motivational Speaker-Author
In this life, everything has a beginning and end, and I think it’s the appropriate time to put an end to a career that has been long and much more successful than I could have ever imagined.
Rafael Nadal,
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Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.
I was not looking for anything, I was just ready to be surprised.
Isabelle Huppert,
actor
Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.
I try to be available for life to happen to me.
Bill Murray,
actor
You’re on the right track. Don’t let anyone stop you and do it as long as you want to. You have this gift — just keep going.
Kelly Bishop
Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
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We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.
Serena Williams – Professional Tennis Player
Don’t be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.
Steve Prefontaine – 1951-1975 – American Long-Distance Runner
Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
Angela Lee Duckworth – Psychologist-American Academic-Science Author
Always believe something wonderful is about to happen.
Unknown
You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.
Unknown
The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.
Tom Clancy
As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
James McCloughan
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
Oliver North
I’m a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?
MJ Hegar
Being in combat is not unending high-five moments.
David Petraeus
Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me.
Frances Hesselbein
There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn’t do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we couldn’t do Iraq. We did it with 150 combat casualties in six weeks. We did it so fast we weren’t prepared for their collapse. There is nobody we can’t take down. The question is, what do you do with the power?
Thomas P.M. Barnett
“Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equanimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.”
S.N. Goenka
“Feeling safe in someone’s energy is a different kind of intimacy. That feeling of peace and protection is really underrated.”
Vanessa Klas
“I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Perfectionism is the exhausting state of pretending to know it all and have it all together, all the time. I’d rather be a happy mess than an anxious stress case who’s always trying to hide my flaws and mistakes.”
Lori Deschene
“Don’t be afraid to start over. This time you’re not starting from scratch, you’re starting from experience.”
Unknown
1758 – Seven Years’ War: Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch.[5]
The Battle of Hochkirch took place on 14 October 1758, during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years’ War). After several weeks of maneuvering for position, an Austrian army of 80,000 commanded by Lieutenant Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun surprised the Prussian army of 30,000–36,000 commanded by Frederick the Great. The Austrian army overwhelmed the Prussians and forced a general retreat. The battle took place in and around the village of Hochkirch, 9 kilometers (6 mi) east of Bautzen, Saxony.
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1529 – The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.
The Siege of Vienna, in 1529, was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna in the Archduchy of Austria, part of the Holy Roman Empire. Suleiman the Magnificent, sultan of the Ottomans, attacked the city with over 100,000 men, while the defenders, led by Niklas Graf Salm, numbered no more than 21,000. Nevertheless, Vienna was able to survive the siege, which ultimately lasted just over two weeks, from 27 September to 15 October, 1529.
1425 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian painter (d. 1499)
Alesso or Alessio Baldovinetti (14 October 1427 – 29 August 1499) was an Italian early Renaissance painter and draftsman.
1440 – Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (d. 1483)
Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, called “the Rich” (15 October 1440[1] – 13 January 1483) was the second son of Louis I of Hesse and his wife Anna of Saxony.
Upon the death of his father Louis I in 1458, Henry received Upper Hesse and his brother Louis II received Lower Hesse. He succeeded to the title of Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg in 1458.[1] His nickname “the Rich” is indicative of his fortune in territory and tolls on the Rhine received by his marriage to Anna, daughter and heir of Philipp, the last Count of Katzenelnbogen and his wife Anne of Württemberg.
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Resurrection Bay Historical Society: Virgil Campbell will share the History of I.R.B.I. Knives, a business along the Seward Highway started in 1971 by his parents Irvin and Clara Campbell. At the time, the shop was called Kenai Lake Tourist Trap. Join us for the free program starting at 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 17 in the Library & Museum Community Room.
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