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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.

Douglas MacArthur

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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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To master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
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I came through and I shall return.
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So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away
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Beware not the enemy from ‘without’ but the enemy from ‘within’.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.
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To dilute the will to win is to destroy the purpose of the game. There is no substitute for victory.
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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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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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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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