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"Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp."
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"If you understand that a wasted time is a wasted life, you will start running away from television, you will begin to run away from movies, you will run away from games like criminal case and candy crush."
"Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness."
"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."
"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."
"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."
"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life."
"You cannot desire to be great when you cannot even focus on 8 hours of work a day."
"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"
"You have a shot at success if you can discipline yourself to eliminate the limiting thoughts from within and the disempowering words from without."
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"When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war."
"You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did."
"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."
"I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running."
"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."
"Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam."
"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons."
"There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better."
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