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| de7db97 | James Howard Williams died during an emergency appendectomy. So accustomed to the burning ache of his ulcer, he mistook the new, sharper agony as more of the same. The man who never spoke of his woes stoically bore the pain of a burst appendix until it was too late. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 3cbc57e | Eighty percent of American forces contracted dysentery in another siege, but they kept fighting. Some had to go into combat with the backsides of their pants cut away. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| d0e916c | this point, the uzis believed that even the nicest bulls | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| a4c1f18 | I tell you, therefore, as officers, that you will neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor smoke, nor even sit down until you have personally seen that your men have done those things. If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 52e5fb3 | trust requires much more than affection; it depends on mutual confidence--strength, not niceness. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 00f6ad7 | The war sometimes made men harder and softer at the same time. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 8441e54 | Merrill's Marauders, as well as the pilots of the Flying Tigers. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 83cfcc0 | If you will do this for them, they will follow you to the end of the world. And, if you do not, I will break you. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| c6d0aef | Dominance is not leadership. From animals, Williams said, people could learn about taking "authority without being a bully." | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| b01834b | Years later, historians would try to explain the complicated reasons for such behavior. In part, they would conclude, it was a cocktail of harsh discipline, national fervor, religion, childhood education, a cultural embrace of obedience over individuality, and a demand for utter allegiance and bravery that was enforced with physical punishment. But to an Allied soldier in the field, it didn't matter why. They simply never wanted to find the.. | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| b78e61f | for he felt moved by forces that weren't necessarily visible or easily explainable. Coming to Burma had only amplified those leanings. "There are ways of knowing things quite certainly but not by reason," he would write, "and in the East both the wise and the simple accept this." -- | Vicki Constantine Croke | ||
| 45c58b1 | Children are also effective at influencing others. Many times in the last few years, I have witnessed children's letters and testimony touch and influence hard-boiled politicians in ways that adults cannot. Politicians are people, too, and they have children and grandchildren. An articulate and earnest child who asks only for a sustainable world can soften their hearts. | Mary Pipher | ||
| 0fda129 | Run to God in times of temptation. Flee the situation by running straight into His arms. When you do so, the devil will flee from you because darkness cannot dwell in the place of the light. If your heart is tempted by the darkness, therefore, run swiftly to the light, which is the presence of the Lord. | Adam Houge | ||
| 33dadb0 | As Lucetta continued going on and on about what he should do, in that rather bossy manner he'd never imagined she possessed, he found himself having a bit of a difficult time concentrating on what she was saying. Her lips were moving rapidly, and while he was certain she was probably giving him sound advice, he found himself more concerned with the idea that it seemed to him as if she'd done something to her lips--something that made them s.. | Jen Turano | ||
| 0d3bb0e | Stalin was a driving force behind the Korean War. After NATO stonewalled communism in Europe, Stalin turned to Asia. He appointed a "Little Stalin" in North Korea named Kim Il Sung and told him in 1949: "You must strike the Southerners in the teeth....Strike them, strike them." Soviet tacticians then drew up the battle plans for the North Korean invasion of the south and Kim Il Sung assured Stalin: "The attack will be swift and the war will.. | Adam Makos | ||
| dcde6fe | During and after the war, though, no one in the Allied countries wanted to be reminded that, only a decade or two earlier, it was the King of the Belgians whose men in Africa had cut off hands. And so the full history of Leopold's rule in the Congo and of the movement that opposed it dropped out of Europe's memory, perhaps even more swiftly and completely than did the other mass killings that took place in the colonization of Africa. | Adam Hochschild | ||
| e2bd28f | The river moved so swiftly and yet it had no purpose other than to flow, just flow. | purpose | Gioconda Belli | |
| 6b3cc12 | I praise You for Your authority over me. I worship You for Your authority over the grave. I praise You! For there is none like You, and all creatures both spiritual and physical are subject to You. For You are Lord and reign over all. Everything is Yours and belongs to Your name alone. Reign in my life in all Your authority. I surrender to Your Lordship. I surrender to Your purpose and Your plans. Be mighty in my life, O God--mighty to save.. | Adam Houge | ||
| 0f7d132 | Thinking about oneself invokes the logic of consequence: Will I get sick? Doctors and nurses can answer swiftly with a no: I spend a lot of time in a hospital, I don't always wash, and I rarely get sick, so this probably won't affect me. In general, we tend to be overconfident about our own invulnerability to harm. But thinking about patients prompts a logic of appropriateness: What should a person like me do in a situation like this? It ch.. | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 5e63ef8 | Is there," he asked with a bitter smile, "any one of you who doesn't with his whole heart love Miss Dobson?" Nobody held up a hand. "As I feared," said the Duke, knowing not that if a hand had been held up he would have taken it as a personal insult. No man really in love can forgive another for not sharing his ardour. His jealousy for himself when his beloved prefers another man is hardly a stronger passion than his jealousy for her when.. | Max Beerbohm | ||
| 24e7fe5 | This pivotal experience taught Mitch that to participate in a democracy, you must show up, meet people, and volunteer. It doesn't work to wait to be discovered. | Mary Pipher | ||
| ab979fd | Night falls in the capital of the former Yugoslavia, and music fills the air. Everywhere. | Belgrade | ||
| f425d90 | Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows. | Jacqueline Carey | ||
| 7486b8b | Creation spirituality replaced a patriarchal spirituality rooted in notions of fall and redemption. | Bell hooks | ||
| 6fd6543 | Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against. | Bell hooks | ||
| 28ac796 | It's the life force of angels. It's hope. It's faith. It's all those good things in life that give people the strength to get up each day and cope with what they have. It's the blood that flows through me. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| a86a6c1 | I don't think you can appreciate the simplicity of freedom until you've suffered." She" | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| c255fe6 | The chaos indicates you're smart enough to spend your time fighting for what matters, instead of wasting time adhering to society's useless mores about what a home should look like. Speaks to your power. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 6dc1a8c | That's why I was able to manifest these. I used the pain to make myself stronger than my destiny. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 4bd88e7 | Love might be beautiful, but it had a razor edge of pain that hurt more than anything she'd ever felt before. | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 175b7af | Clare, there's no chance in hell I would ever believe you're frigid." Her heart began to race. "No?" His gaze went to her mouth, and then back to her eyes. "Not with the way you look at me." She swallowed, her body vibrating at the intensity of his gaze, and the weight of his hand as he caressed her neck. "How do I look at you?" she whispered, her voice too breathy. "Exactly how I want you to." | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 37235a1 | People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. | Bell hooks | ||
| 9cc292c | Bell's theorem is the most profound discovery of science. | Bell's theorem | ||
| e1b1c6a | What in Satan's slightly misguided obsession with Journey happened to this office?" Astrid demanded" | Stephanie Rowe | ||
| 07c1ba2 | Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers ... even if you write it yourself. | Matt Braun | ||
| dd5dfc0 | Pueblo investment properties, and he had mortgaged the ranch to raise added investment funds for still more business concerns. At the time, with the economy booming | Matt Braun | ||
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| 4b498a3 | officer's training at the Army's Aberdeen, Md., Proving Ground, our class received instruction on sophisticated equipment. During one class, I was fascinated by an expensive-looking computer. The instructor bragged that it was able to withstand nuclear and chemical attacks. I was duly impressed. But then the instructor abruptly stopped his lecture and turned to me. "Lieutenant, there will be no eating or drinking in my class," he snapped. ".. | Reader's Digest Association | ||
| 51714b4 | Women derived significant benefits from the lessons in Betty Lehan Harragan's Games Mother Never Taught You and Margaret Hennig and Anne Jardim's The Managerial Woman. These books, published in 1977 and 1976, respectively, launched a paradigm shift in female thinking. They and other such writings encouraged women to acquire political savvy, learn the ropes, and beat men at their own games. There is much to be said for political savvy and le.. | Kathleen Kelley Reardon | ||
| e196af2 | Some people specialize in initiating things. These are the good-idea people, and every workplace should have some of them. But in high-level management positions, these people can get so many things going that they cannot follow through on them all, and some initiatives die for lack of attention. A manager who comes up with lots of new ideas for improvements and changes might get people excited at first, but without using the other three ty.. | Jeffrey D. Ford | ||
| 1b27dd8 | Hanging out with you is like an extra job. | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| 6121bcb | I thought of a line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, "As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean." | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| 697de83 | Even the streetcars moved at a more languorous pace, like great serpents swimming through a darkness made thick by the cast-off regrets of the day. I forestalled answering my own question by stopping at the corner of Thirty-third Street to peer across the avenue at the moonlit remains of what once had been the mansion of John Jacob Astor. I had read in the newspaper that his son, to spite the mother, was going to raze the old building and e.. | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| af72f36 | Table 2 List of Initiatives: What do I want to accomplish? (State the end result or outcome) When do I want to accomplish it? (Be as specific as you can) Why do I think it is important? (State the difference that you believe it will it make) 1. 2. 3. | Jeffrey D. Ford |