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Old 07-10-2017, 07:52 PM   #503
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What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...


What is good for one person ought to be good enough for anyone else.
Unless you've got serious allergies, then this most likely won't work out (I have allergies to lots of things that seem to work for geese, but not me *lol* )

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going............



Often, when things become difficult, people who seem weak find the strength somehow to keep going! You become tough in hard times.
I can't think of the song, but there's a song with this exact line of thought! Do you by chance know which song I'm thinking of, homoe?

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Winning isn't everything...


Success is not everything, what you learn in the process of becoming successful is more important.
I like this thought process a lot. There's an strand of thought that goes something like this: "Flowers do not compete with other flowers: Instead, they just bloom."

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You win some, you lose some, some you walk away from..........


In life, you have to expect to win and lose.
So true. Thanks for all the many ways you've added toward the body of idioms, colloquial sayings and phrase of thoughts! Some I remember, some I frequently use, and other times I've just never heard of things people say to express what's on their mind.
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