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How do you fight someone who doesn’t care if they get killed? You accommodate them.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF

Human Being Personality
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
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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Want War Wise
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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Advice Enemy God Love
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
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Family Father Kill Mother People Professional Soldier
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
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Art Men Military
I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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Cancer Normal Proof
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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Country Hunt War
I am quite confident that in the foreseeable future armed conflict will not take the form of huge land armies facing each other across extended battle lines, as they did in World War I and World War II or, for that matter, as they would have if NATO had faced the Warsaw Pact on the field of battle.
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Army Military War
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
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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Giving Leadership People
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics

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