"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."

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William Westmoreland

#Military Quotes #Asia Quotes #Communist Quotes

“Nature is as it is because this is the only possible nature consistent with itself.”
“Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.”
“Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.”
“When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!”
“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.”
“That most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want it badder than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep!”
“I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.”
“However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I donâ€™t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swordsâ€¦I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work togetherâ€¦and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.”

Source : "How To Train Your Dragon: How To Speak Dragonese". Book by Cressida Cowell, 2017.

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