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Old 28 June 2013, 08:54 PM   #129
SUBversive
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Join Date: May 2011
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Originally Posted by cop414 View Post
He seemed ebullient and cocky. He had challenged death to a duel, not once but many times and had always won. What the young man failed to understand is that as an adversary death really isn't hard to beat. If you're skillful you can defeat him again and again almost with impunity. The problem is that death is immortal, he keeps coming back and unlike you, he only has to win once.

This hung in my locker at work, at eye level so I could see it every day for over 20 years.
That's heavy. Calls to mind Sean Connery's character's first rule of police work from the untouchables: "when your shift is over, go home alive."
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