"The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?"

Engst, Adam C. on Management
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"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games."

Burroughs, William S. on Universe
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"When placed in command -- take charge."

Schwarzkopf, Norman on Leaders and Leadership
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"Those who endure conquer."

Motto on Endurance
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"The first and the best victory is to conquer self."

Plato on Control
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"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory."

Foch, Ferdinand on Victory
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"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

Hillary, Sir Edmund on Obstacles
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"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on Fear
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"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

Orwell, George on Past
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"Rank imposes obligation."

Motto on Duty
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"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."

Bennis, Warren on Leaders and Leadership
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"Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."

Shakespeare, William on Greatness
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"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Decisions
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"The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny."

Pascal, Blaise on Unity
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on Friends and Friendship
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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Love
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"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on Love
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"The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass."

Melville, Herman on Survival
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"The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips."

FeNelon, Francois on Past
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"So you think you can tell heaven from hell blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail, a smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? Did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts hot ashes for trees, hot air for a cool breeze, cold comfort for change? Did you exchange a walk on part in a war for a lead role in a cage?"

Waters, R. on War
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"You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment."

Unknown, Source on Imagination
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"How can we live without our lives? How will we know its us without our past?"

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"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

Whitton, Charlotte on Ability
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"There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on Motivation
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"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."

Claudius on Wish and Wishing
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on Evil
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"Ghosts only exist for those who wish to see them."

Holtei on Spirit and Spirituality
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on Excess
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on Failure
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake."

Confucius on Failure
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"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

Confucius on Family
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"America and its demons, Europe and its ghost."

Le Monde on America
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"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

Kipling, Rudyard on Unity
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"Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time."

Unknown, Source on Reincarnation
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"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."

Heinlein, Robert on History and Historians
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"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Vision
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on Self-control
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. "

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"The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence."

Patton, George S. on Self-confidence
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