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"The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career."
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"God Himself is the power that makes prayer work."
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"Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!"
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"The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!"
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"I heard my teacher said "great people make history". I am not concern about "great" or "people" or "history". I am concerned about "make" and it keeps me asking the next question "how?"! They are Determined and Disciplined!"
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"Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere."
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"If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"?"
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"But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out a political program. That is silly. The clergy are those particular people within the whole church who have been specially trained and set aside to look after what concerns us as creatures who are going to live forever. And we are asking them to do a quite different job, for which they have not been trained. The job is really on us- on the laymen."
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"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"
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"Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration."
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"It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!"
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"The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career."
Leadership
"When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war."
Time
"I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946."
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"I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22."
Being
"I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically."
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"I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money."
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"And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering."
Choice
"I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948."
Education
"I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War."
War
"I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best way to catch up was to move as fast as you could toward a degree."
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