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"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
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Hugh Shelton
"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
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"If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well."
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Marcus Aurelius
"If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well."
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"Get there first with the most."
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
"Get there first with the most."
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"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."
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Robert Morgan
"The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end."
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"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve."
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Wilfred Owen
"After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve."
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"In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time."
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Hideki Tojo
"In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time."
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"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."
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Marcus Aurelius
"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."
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"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
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Wilfred Owen
"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."
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"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example."
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Robert Baden-Powell
"Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example."
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"If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go."
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Germany Kent
"If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go."
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"What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs."
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Barry McCaffrey
"What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs."
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"If you don't put anything in place, do not expect miraculous results to appear."
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Germany Kent
"If you don't put anything in place, do not expect miraculous results to appear."
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"I have been driven demented in my career."
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Lord Mountbatten
"I have been driven demented in my career."
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"We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
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Omar N. Bradley
"We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
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"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."
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John Abizaid
"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."
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"The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness."
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Thomas Francis Meagher
"The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness."
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"The precondition to freedom is security."
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Rand Beers
"The precondition to freedom is security."
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"Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out."
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David Petraeus
"Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out."
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"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."
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"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."
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Marcus Aurelius
"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."
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"When your heart is heavy, sometimes it's just easier to retweet the words of another person who seems to know exactly how you feel."
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Germany Kent
"When your heart is heavy, sometimes it's just easier to retweet the words of another person who seems to know exactly how you feel."
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"Father God, we thank you for your grace and your mercy, for allowing us to be together under your covenant and God we thank you for the revelations and for the breakthroughs; for your direction and for your healing. We thank you God for the opportunity to just be a vessel for your kingdom. God we trust you, we love you, we honor you, and all glory is yours. Amen."
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Germany Kent
"Father God, we thank you for your grace and your mercy, for allowing us to be together under your covenant and God we thank you for the revelations and for the breakthroughs; for your direction and for your healing. We thank you God for the opportunity to just be a vessel for your kingdom. God we trust you, we love you, we honor you, and all glory is yours. Amen."
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"If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future."
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Germany Kent
"If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future."
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"The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light."
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Robert Baden-Powell
"The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light."
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"Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process."
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Germany Kent
"Let your life reflect the faith you have in God. Fear nothing and pray about everything. Be strong, trust God's word, and trust the process."
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"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."
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Robert Morgan
"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."
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"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"
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Zebulon Pike
"Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?"
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"Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life."
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Germany Kent
"Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, and remind you what's important in life."
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"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."
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John Abizaid
"I think you will see a lot of strains develop in the political process that will result in violence everywhere in the country - but it's controllable, it's workable and it will lead to a much better future for these people."
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"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
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Wilfred Owen
"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
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"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."
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Philip Sidney
"Either I will find a way, or I will make one."
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"If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?"
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Robert Gould Shaw
"If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?"
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"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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Robert Morgan
"If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable."
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"We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over."
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William Odom
"We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over."
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"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."
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Philip Sidney
"The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care."
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"I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled."
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Lord Mountbatten
"I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled."
Sea,
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"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students."
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Daniel H. Hill
"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students."
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"I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere."
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Adolf Galland
"I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere."
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"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
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Marcus Aurelius
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
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"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."
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Russel Honore
"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."
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"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
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Moshe Dayan
"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."
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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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James Stockdale
"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities."
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William Odom
"Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities."
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"A military life has ever comported with my inclination."
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George Stoneman
"A military life has ever comported with my inclination."
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"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
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Miyamoto Musashi
"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
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"Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter."
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Timothy Murphy
"Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter."
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"You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end."
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George Armstrong Custer
"You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end."
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"Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level."
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Germany Kent
"Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level."
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"You can divide my life into two."
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Lord Mountbatten
"You can divide my life into two."
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"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
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Archibald Wavell
"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
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