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Nelson A. Miles

"It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed."

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press

Nelson A. Miles

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“Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.”
“I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years”
“I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.”
“When you go out on the court whether it be for the championship or just a scrimmage, have confidence that your abilities and what you've learned in your drills are better than your opponent's. This does not mean you should disregard your opponent. Before taking the court for any game, you should do a lot of thinking about what you have to do to beat your opponent and what he must or can do to beat you.”
“I give to my friends the assurance that if they will recast their ideas and attitudes about the relative importance of the spiritual to the material, and bring themselves to participate in the mighty cause of establishing God's kingdom in the earth, they will find a satisfaction, a sureness of purpose, a peace and contentment, surpassing anything they have ever known.”
“You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.”
“. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.”
“Above all else, I had learned the one thing every person has to learn to make it through life: the only person you can truly count on is yourself.”

"It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed."

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