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If combat had taught me anything, it taught me what was essential in life and what wasn’t.

Major Dick Winters

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Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.
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Permanent Problem Solution Suicide
I have always prided myself that I do my own thinking. I have my own philosophy. I have my own answer to the reasons things have turned out in my life.
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Answer Life Philosophy Pride Reason
We all experienced sleep deprivation at times – hat is the nature of stress but a physically exhausted leader routinely makes poor decisions in times of crisis.
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Deprivation Exhaust Experience Hat Leadership Nature Physical Stress
Never, ever give up regardless of the adversity.
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Adversity Give Up Motivational Regard
Physical stamina is the root of mental toughness.
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Gymnastic Mental Physical Root Stamina Tough War
As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.
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Calculation Leadership Loss War
The paratroopers were the best soldiers at the infantry school and I wanted to be with the best.
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School Soldier Want
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Depart Footprints Leave Live Men Sane Sublime Time
War brings out the worst and the best in people. Wars do not make men great, but they do bring out the greatness in good men.
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Greatness People War Worse
It is far easier to find quiet than to find peace. True peace must come from within oneself.
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Easy Oneself Peace Quiet
True satisfaction comes from getting the job done. Ribbons, medals, and accolades, then, are poor substitutes to the ability to look yourself in the mirror every night and know that you did your best.
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Done Medal Mirror Night Poor Satisfaction Subsitute
I found myself highly critical of any leader who failed to lead by example.
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Critical Failure Leadership War
The only thing I asked for now was to be alive tomorrow morning and to survive another day. That was all that mattered.
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Alive Survive Tomorrow War
Very few men can remain poised under an artillery concentration.
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Concentration Men
A man can get something from war that is impossible to acquire any place else.
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Acquire Impossible Man Place
Lead from the front. Say, “Follow me!” and then lead the way.
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Follow Leadership Soldier

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