"I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq."

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Source : "New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki" by Thom Shanker, www.nytimes.com. January 12, 2007.

Eric Shinseki

#Iraq Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Dying Quotes

“When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens”
“Climate change is there as a reminder that we can get richer and safer societies that are also consuming more and more to the point where the stability of Earth's systems is being challenged at potentially catastrophic levels. I don't think we can stop that. Just the very same worries I have about prediction on the positive progressive side - I mean, predictions that say we'll be great, we'll be fine - also apply to predictions that are too catastrophic. I'm not sure we get those predictions right either.”
“The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.”
“You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.”
“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”
“The Creator has given me the strength to look forward in life, to embrace the beautiful and the positive. Now I truly walk in beauty.”
“I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture.”
“Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.”

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