With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPFAn awful lot has been written about my temper.
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It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
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I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.
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I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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