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"He who stops being better stops being good."
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Oliver Cromwell
"He who stops being better stops being good."
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"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."
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Robert Anderson
"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."
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"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
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Henry Knox
"The frame of mind in the local legislatures seems to be exerted to prevent the federal constitution from having any good effect."
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"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
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Chester W. Nimitz
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
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"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."
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Joshua Chamberlain
"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."
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"I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood."
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Robert Morgan
"I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood."
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"A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush."
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Timothy Murphy
"A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush."
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"I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace."
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"In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective."
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Ferdinand Foch
"In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective."
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"But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power."
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Joshua Chamberlain
"But the cause for which we fought was higher; our thought wider... That thought was our power."
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"To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now."
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Julius Streicher
"To this day, I do not believe that five million were killed. I consider it technically impossible that could have happened. I do not believe it. I have not received proof of that up until now."
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"The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage."
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William Bligh
"The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage."
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"Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved."
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Timothy Murphy
"Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved."
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"Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis."
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Janis Karpinski
"Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis."
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"The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death ."
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Heinrich Himmler
"The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death ."
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"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
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Douglas MacArthur
"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
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"Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel."
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Ethan A. Hitchcock
"Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel."
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"There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book."
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Julius Streicher
"There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book."
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"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent."
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Barry McCaffrey
"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent."
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"I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me."
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Ira Hayes
"I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me."
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"If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job."
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John Berry
"If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job."
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"The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files."
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Timothy Murphy
"The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files."
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"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."
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James Longstreet
"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."
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"There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell."
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"Be moderate in everything, including moderation."
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Horace Porter
"Be moderate in everything, including moderation."
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"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will."
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"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe."
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Heinrich Himmler
"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe."
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"Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home."
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Timothy Murphy
"Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home."
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"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."
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Moshe Dayan
"Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood."
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"The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet."
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William Wiley
"The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet."
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"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."
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John Abizaid
"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."
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"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."
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Julius Streicher
"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."
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"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."
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Douglas MacArthur
"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."
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"Life is a lively process of becoming."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Life is a lively process of becoming."
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"I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol."
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Abraham Whipple
"I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol."
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"The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is."
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Germany Kent
"The outcome is not up to you. The outlook is."
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"There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it."
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Germany Kent
"There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it."
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"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation."
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Robert E. Lee
"We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation."
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"The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe."
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Franz Halder
"The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe."
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"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control."
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Janis Karpinski
"Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control."
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"Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now."
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Germany Kent
"Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now."
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"Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people."
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Germany Kent
"Let your light shine as an inspiration to humanity and BE THE REASON someone believes in the goodness of people."
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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Horace Porter
"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
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Timothy Murphy
"While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed."
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"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."
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Horatio Nelson
"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."
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"I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes."
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"The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future."
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Joshua Chamberlain
"The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future."
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"Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side."
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William Wiley
"Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side."
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"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
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Norman Schwarzkopf
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
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Omar N. Bradley
"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
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