Alexander P. de Seversky famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found, has a way of taking a man pretty much at his own rating. If he permits his loss to make him embarrassed and apologetic, he will draw embarrassment from others. But if he gains his own respect, the respect of those around him comes easily.
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Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.
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Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible.
-- Alexander P. de Seversky
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
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If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.
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The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
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...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.
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A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.
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God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
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God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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