"The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals."

-- Antony Beevor

#Clever Quotes #Army Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.”
“Belief in oneself is a crucial quality of leadership, because 'a house divided against itself cannot stand.' A leader who fluctuates back and forth sends a very wavery signal. Like the soprano who can shatter glass by finding that high note and holding it, a leader who can hold that high note, without wavering, can shatter walls.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books
“If you look up gerbil videos online, at least half of them are hiney gerbils.”
“I don't get embarrassed.”
“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
“Please all, and you will please none.”
“Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.”

Source : Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College”
“We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.”

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