"[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth."

-- Peter R. Mansoor

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“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
“I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.”
“If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.”
“It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.”
“Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.”

Source : Song: Twilight, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004
“Just remember that William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. Ya gotta keep creating.”
“A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.”
“I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.”

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