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We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction.

Douglas MacArthur

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
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Country Decade Duty Hollow Honor Nan Ought Revertiny Will Word
The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.
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Ability Destructive Inescapable Liberty Preserve
Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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Army Destroy Line Nine Serve Supply Time
I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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Flagpole See Stand Still
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
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Decay Economical Fail History More Nation Pass Political Precedent Record Single Subject
Whatever your years, there is in every being’s heart the love of wonder, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
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Awake Decline Game Joy Life Nation Political Record Spiritual Subject
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Body Soul Wait Wrinkle
WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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Basically Chance Have Human Improvement Involve Last Problem Spiritual
The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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Chicken Come Happen Home House Just Move Roost
From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea – written in red on every beachhead from Australia to Tokyo – “There is no substitute for victory!”
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Beachhead Country East Every Far Idea Red Send Single Sole Thought Written
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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All Bear Deepest Other Peace People Pray Scar Soldier Suffer War
Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.
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Die Fight Know Men Without
I’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
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Death Eye Look Many Old Rope Sounder Think Times
Life is a lively process of becoming.
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Become Live Lively Process
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
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Grow Living Merely Nobody Number Old Year
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.
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