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it's easier finding a virgin in a whorehouse than an honest politician.
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Gentlemen," he said, "I am a simple soldier. When I was a cadet at Norwich, I was told, and I believed, and my subsequent career has proven true, that the essence of command is to make sure the troops have confidence in what they are doing. Troops must have faith in their officers Officers build and maintain that faith in a very simple manner: They never lie to their troops; they never ask them to do something they cannot do themselves, or ..
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Gentlemen," he said. "The Marine Corps loves you. Because the Marine Corps loves you, it has gone to considerable effort and expense to provide you with a healthy, nutritious breakfast. The Marine Corps expects you to eat the healthy, nutritious breakfast it has provided for you."
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we say here in Texas, 'Cold as an ex-wife's heart.
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only thing worse than not realizing one's dreams was to realize them:
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was cheaper in the long run to go first class.
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the true test of another man's intelligence is how much he agrees with you?
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Find capable subordinates, give them a clear mission, and then get out of their way and let them do their jobs.
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As far as he was concerned, there were only two kinds of soldiers. There were those who lost their heads at the sound of hostile fire, and those who didn't. The warriors and the chair-borne.
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The first duty of an officer--whether a lieutenant or a captain or the Commander in Chief--is to the enlisted men. That was a basic principle of command. He could not justify not calling up the best qualified officers simply because they had already done their duty. They were needed again. They could save some lives. It was a dirty goddamned trick on them, but that's the way it was going to have to be.
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mellifluous
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was, while inarguably patriotic, almost
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The first duty of an officer--whether a lieutenant or a captain or the Commander in Chief--is to the enlisted men. That was a basic principle of command. He could not justify not calling up
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Everybody, sooner or later, stubs their toe. When that happens, the thing to do is swallow hard and go on
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The behavioral scientists at the University of California, after extensive research, concluded that the best human material to train to be a pilot are classified intellectually as cretins.
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When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
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And it also says, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,'" McCoy said. "And that 'he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword."
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God, it is said, takes care of fools and drunks,
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mysterious chemistry that sometimes developed between seemingly dissimilar men--each surprisingly recognizing in the other a deep-down, kindred soul, the two of them bobbing along alone and unappreciated in a sea of fools.
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line from a biography of General George S. Patton: "Never take counsel of your fears."
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BOOK
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a colonel named Wesley is
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leather-bound address book. A plastic bag held a 9 mm Pistol-08 Parabellum--more popularly known as a "German Luger"--and"
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The official hypocrisy was that all were still
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You can't tell what a warrior looks like.
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McCoy. It was also pretty clear
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But I hate to ask my men to go through the inconvenience
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be pleased to have you join
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A good soldier goes where he is told to go, and does what he is told to do, and he smiles.
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McInerney said. Weston looked at him in confusion.
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personally,
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ambassador, but knew nothing beyond that. The first impression Frade had of Ambassador
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Consequently, if we should get lucky
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Modem.
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senior officer presumed to be a better judge of
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and quickly smoothed down. He checked
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But he just knew how to fly. All they had to do was explain to him what the propeller was doing, spinning around like that.
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Makin atoll before the arrival of the Nautilus. At 2100 hours the patrol craft was released as escort and the Nautilus got underway to rendezvous with the Argonaut off Makin Atoll. (Three)
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expend." "Yes,"
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better to remain mute and thought the fool than to speak and confirm it. Again.
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know," McCoy said. But he didn't protest"
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When you really get serious about some female, Clete, take a good look at her mother. That's what your beloved will look like in twenty, thirty years.
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