"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on Memory
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"You are male by birth, but men by choice."

Gober, Orlando on Manliness
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"We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history."

Kaplan, Roger on History
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"Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect."

neuhaus, richard john on Tolerance
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"Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion."

neuhaus, richard john on Religion
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"Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed"

neuhaus, richard john on Orthodoxy
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"All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic."

neuhaus, richard john on Orthodoxy
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"What is the good of experience if you do not reflect."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on Experience
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"It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger."

Jones, John Paul on Risk
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"I work in minutes, not in hours."

Suvorov, Alexander on
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"It is fortunate that war is so terrible, lest we become to fond of it."

Lee, Robert E. on War
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"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment not of sentiment, but of history."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on American Flag
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"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism."

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"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."

Hesse, Hermann on Courage
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"Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self."

Hindu Proverb on Improvement
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"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil ad steady dedication of a lifetime."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on Patriotism
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"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Leadership
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"Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms."

Jackson, Andrew on Blood
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"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. "

Washington, George on Uncategorised
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"Ideas have consequences and bad ideas can have lethal consequences."

Weigel, George on Ideas
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"Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Decisions
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"I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Speed
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"What our sword has won in half a year, our sword must guard for half a century."

von Moltke, Helmuth Graf on War and Peace
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"The man who is prepared has his battle half fought."

Cervantes, Miguel De on Preparation
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"True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Determination
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on Achievement
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"There is nobody more terrible than the desperate."

Suvorov, Alexander on Desperation
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"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on Honor
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"An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."

Lee, Robert E. on Self-control
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"There are no bad regiments; there are only bad colonels."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on
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"One of the first regulations might be to think."

Ward, Orlando on Thinking
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"My center is giving away, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am attacking."

Foch, Ferdinand on Optimism
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"If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself."

Patton, George S. on Duty
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"Duty is ours; consequences our God's."

Jackson, Stonewall on Duty
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"The plan was smooth on paper, only they forgot about the ravines."

Russian Military Proverb on Planning
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"It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Authority
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"Luck in the long run is only given to the efficient."

von Moltke, Helmuth Graf on
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"I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me"

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Luck
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"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

Patton, George S. on Order
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