"His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields."

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Source : William Manchester (1983). “American Caesar”, Laurel

William Manchester

#Courage Quotes #Two Quotes #Heroism Quotes

“You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.”
“Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places to fall from which one could never emerge -- dark dreams and slow death, the death of children, suffering without grace or redemption, ultimate and eternal loss. The memory of the child stayed with him. But that was not to be the end of it, for reality went around in a twisting ring. Even the irredeemable would be redeemed, and there was a balance for everything. There had to be.”
“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”

Source : "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time". Book by John M. Shanahan, September 1909.
“There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.”
“Whoever said money can't buy happiness wasn't spending it helping people who needed it.”
“Every sentence in order to have definite scientific meaning must be practically or at least theoretically verifiable as either true or false upon the basis of experimental measurements either practically or theoretically obtainable by carrying out a definite and previously specified operation in the future. The meaning of such a sentence is the method of its verification.”

Source : Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.94, Courier Corporation
“Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.”
“That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.”

Source : Margaret Millar (2017). “Do Evil in Return”, p.73, Soho Press

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