"There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business."

-- James Mattis

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“I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.”
“There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.”
“Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages.”
“But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!”
“Great empires are not maintained by timidity.”
“As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.”
“To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility ; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.”

Source : "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.
“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”

Source : Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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