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Quotes by Soldier

"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
Job,

"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."

"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."

"There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with."

"Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose."

"If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go."

"If you don't put anything in place, do not expect miraculous results to appear."

"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."

"The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness."

"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."

"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."

"All men are made one for another: either then teach them better or bear with them."

"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."

"If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future."

"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."

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere."

"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."

"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective."

"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."

"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."

"A military life has ever comported with my inclination."

"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."

"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."

"Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level."

"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
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