"We've backed off in good faith to try and give you a chance to straighten this problem out. But I am going to beg with you for a minute. I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years."

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Source : "19 Unforgettable Quotes From Retiring General James 'Mad Dog' Mattis" by Geoffrey Ingersoll and Paul Szoldra, www.businessinsider.com. January 23, 2013.

James Mattis

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“Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.”
“I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.”
“I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.”
“To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure...”
“It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.”
“Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.”
“I fully credit my family for keeping me grounded and for putting me back in line whenever necessary.”
“I think I can speak for all four of us on the show here. We all consider ourselves to be feminists and we get very upset when people don't think we are. We're like, where did this come from? Of course we are.”

Source : "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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