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Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is – to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That’s really what I’m called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.

Bill Mauldin

If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
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Leadership Spaghetti Wet
But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom.
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Beautiful Good Life Ocean
I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.
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Catholic Heart Mother
I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
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Packages Prize Want Wanted
When we realize finally that we aren’t God’s given children, we’ll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
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Children Hurt Laughing
I drew pictures for and about the soldiers because I knew what their life was like and understood their gripes. I wanted to make something out of the humorous situations which come up even when you don’t think life could be any more miserable.
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Humorous Soldier Thinking
I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.
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Born might Trouble Maker
If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton.
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Attitude Dark Soldier
Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is – to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That’s really what I’m called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.
BILL MAULDIN

Focus Jesus Purpose
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
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Coaching Player Teamwork
You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn’t execute properly.
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Play Player Property Reason
My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: “The hell this ain’t the most important hole in the world . I’m in it.
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Italian Reading Years
What you are about to hear is God’s word to the men of this nation. We are going to war as of tonight. We have divine power – that is our weapon. We will not compromise. Wherever truth is at risk, in the schools or legislature, we are going to contend for it. We will win.
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School War Winning
Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
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Cynical Shooting Want
When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
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Ability Born Again DNA
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
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Civilization Made Status

Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is – to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That’s really what I’m called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.

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Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is – to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That’s really what I’m called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.

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