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Bill Mauldin

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
All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
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Coaching Player Teamwork
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
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
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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Kids Progress Soldier
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
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
If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.
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Leadership Spaghetti Wet
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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Honesty Integrity Men
Peace’ is when nobody’s shooting. A ‘just peace’ is when our side gets what it wants.
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Cynical Shooting Want
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
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
We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.
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Building Team Team Building
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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Focus Jesus Purpose
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.
BILL MAULDIN

Humorous Soldier Thinking
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

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