"Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life."

-- Norman Schwarzkopf

#Loss Quotes #Trying Quotes #Realization Quotes

“The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.”
“Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.”
“One of the things I have been arguing about - and slowly they maybe coming around - is tjat I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing,”
“But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?”
“Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.”
“When ordinary Soviet citizens are told that a vital trade agreement awarding their country most-favoured-nation status with the US is being blocked in Congress because Soviet Jews are demanding as an absolute right something few other inhabitants can expect as a special privilege - then the result is likely to be spontaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitism.”
“The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 14, 2011

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