"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood."

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George S. Patton

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“Atlanta is not the South. Atlanta is not the South, gotdamn it, when you go to Atlanta what does your clock say? When you get off the plane from Los Angeles or Texas, what time do it be over there? Atlanta is East Coast time. You ***** ain't in the South.”
“If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety of this discourse was such that it encouraged the kind of ascendancy for a man like Ayatollah Khomeini.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I don't get jealous of other girls, because I was... raised in a cloning lab to be the perfect woman for Hugh M. Hefner, so, other than the fact that my I.Q.'s probably a little higher than he would like, I have nothing to worry about.”
“It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.”
“Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.”

Source : Harry G. Frankfurt (1988). “The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays”, p.132, Cambridge University Press
“I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?”
“They donâ€™t think â€œI care,â€ â€œI hurt,â€ or â€œI have feelings.â€ It just seems like Iâ€™m always â€œwrong,â€ always â€œselfish,â€ always â€œself-centeredâ€ and everything else thatâ€™s negative and destructive.”
“Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success”

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