"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

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Source : Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

George S. Patton

#Death Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Memorial Day Quotes

“You never get bored with God in action.”
“You belong wherever you want to belong.”
“What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.”

Source : Wilson Rawls (2011). “Where the Red Fern Grows”, p.234, Laurel Leaf
“It was my duty to give them the best show possible. Say you've got a timid little preacher in North Carolina or somewhere. He'll bring in visiting evangelists to keep his church going. We'd come in and hit the crowd up and we were superstars. It's the charisma of the evangelist that the audience believes in and comes to see.”
“We are compassionate with ourselves when we are able to embrace all parts of ourselves and recognize the needs and values expressed by each part.”
“You never know when it is your last game or your last tournament,”
“Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.”
“A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.”

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