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32 Cards in this Set
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“Never confuse effort...
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...with effectiveness.” --James Q. Crowe
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Effort vs effectiveness
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“You can’t become addicted...
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...to anything you don’t try.” --Unknown
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Don't start
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“Take care of the downside...
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...and the upside will take care of itself.” --James Q. Crowe
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Manage the risk
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“Character is what you are...
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...when no one is looking.”
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“Patience is the companion...
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...of wisdom.” --St. Augustine
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“You don’t know...
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...what you don’t know.” --Danny Strickland
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“The purpose of all wars...
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...is peace.” --St. Augustine
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“Often the problem’s not in what you’re saying...
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...but rather in how you’re saying it.” --Chuck Macune
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“If you choose not to decide,
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...you still have made a choice” --Rush "Freewill"
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“To many, total abstinence is easier...
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...than perfect moderation.” --St. Augustine
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“Old enough to know what’s right...
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...and young enough not to choose it.” --Rush "New World Man"
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“Solicited advice is much better accepted..
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than unsolicited advice.” --Unknown
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“A soft heart is a good thing to have...
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in a hard world.” --MAJ Clark Lindner
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“The truest separation between cultures...
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...is in the collective dreams of their people.” --Independent reporter observing collaborating U.S. troops and locals from Baquba, Iraq
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"You don't find steak...
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...in trashcans." --Eric Payne re: where you find people of character
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"You have to be willing to do things..."
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"...the masses would never do. That's how you separate yourself from the masses."
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Separate yourself from the masses
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"Here's my strategy on the Cold War:..."
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...We win, they lose." --Ronald Reagan
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"Of the four wars in my lifetime...
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"...none came about because the U.S. was too strong." --Ronald Reagan
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"If we ever forget that we're one nation..."
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"...under God, then we will be a nation gone under." --Ronald Reagan
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"It has been said that politics is...
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"...the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." --Ronald Reagan
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"A people that values its privileges...
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...above its principles soon loses both." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Good people sleep peaceably...
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"...in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” --George Orwell
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"Pain is inevitable.
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Misery is optional." --unknown
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"...This does not mean that you are warmongers.
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On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." -- GEN MacArthur's speech to the USCC, 12MAY62
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"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously...
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in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either." --Albert Einstein
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"Uneasy lies the head..."
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"...that wears a crown." --Shakespeare
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"How you think when you lose..."
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"...determines how long it will be until you win." --G. K. Chesterton
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"If you don't have enemies,"
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"...you don't have character." --Paul Newman
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"America will never be destroyed from..."
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"...the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves." --Abraham Lincoln |
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"Character, in the long run, is the..."
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"...decisive factor in the
life of an individual and of nations alike." --Theodore Roosevelt |
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"War is an ugly thing, but not..."
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"...the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill
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"The problem with socialism...
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"...is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -- Margaret Thatcher
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