I get angry at a principle, not a person.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFJudge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
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I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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