"Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won."

-- Helen Thomas

#War Quotes #Order Quotes #Troops Quotes

“I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.”
“Even the most productive writers are expert dawdlers.”
“Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a long distance rather than flying. While driving, we see the country instead of racing over it. There's a human scale that flying cannot offer.”
“I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven't exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.”
“The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.”

Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.224, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
“Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?”
“There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.”
“Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.”

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