"The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out."

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Source : "What's Up With All These Planes Landing At The Wrong Airport?" by Robert Bateman, www.esquire.com. February 10, 2014.

B. H. Liddell Hart

#Military Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.”
“I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.”

Source : "David Gergen and Mark Shields on Bill Clinton's 100 Days". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. April 29, 1993.
“I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.”
“I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.”
“Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.”
“The hardest part of your journey to success will be telling people your crazy dreams and ideas. But I've found as soon as you say your dreams aloud, many people will come to your side and help guide your journey in the right direction. During my 30 year journey with my disease I have discovered that you will always be surrounded by help, support and light if you stay positive in spite of hardships.”
“He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.”
“I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.”

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