Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHURThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
More Douglas MacArthur Quotes
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.
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The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
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The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
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The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image.
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I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The issues are global and so interlocked that to consider the problems of one sector, oblivious to those of another, is but to court disaster for the whole.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
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No army has ever done so much with so little.
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Old soldiers never die, they just lose their grip on reality after traumatic brain injuries.
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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.
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In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military.
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Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory.
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