You have to convince your players that the only reason a play failed was that they didn’t execute properly.
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More Bill Mauldin Quotes
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I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man’s conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.
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If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you’d conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good.
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We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
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When you’re born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God’s terms.
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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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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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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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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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True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being
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I’ve never wanted just part of the package, part of the prize. I want it all!
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Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
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A soldier’s life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I’ve been able to follow my kid’s progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.
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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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Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.
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Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
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