"Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances."

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Source : "Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too" by Stephen Ambrose, www.cnn.com. August 5, 1998.

Paul Fussell

#Strong Quotes #Military Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, world view and thoughts.”

Source : "Close Range". Interview with Matthew Testa, www.cityweekly.net. June 11, 2007.
“It turns out that hyperbolic structures are very common in nature, and the place where lots of people encounter them is coral reefs. Sea slugs, and a lot of other organisms with frilly forms, are biological manifestations of hyperbolic geometry, which is also found in the structure of lettuce leaves and kales, and some species of cactus.”
“God made only one you and He threw the mold away.”
“The trick in life is not to die. The trick in investing is not to lose.”
“I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.”
“The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears without is what has been found within. In the world within may be found infinite wisdom, infinite power and infinite supply of all that is necessary, waiting for unfoldment, development and expression. If we recognize these potentialities in the world within they will take form in the world without.”

Source : Charles F. Haanel (2013). “The Master Key System & Mental Chemistry”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.”

Source : François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.235
“Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri, Charles Lloyd (1876). “Philip”

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