"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line."

-- Charles Edward Montague

#Military Quotes #Distance Quotes #Army Quotes

“In todayâ€™s work arena, creativity may be more of an asset than competence.”
“The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.”

Source : James J. Hill (2001). “Highways of Progress”, p.307, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby!”
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.”
“Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.”
“With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The truly great person is the one who gives you a chance.”
“As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.”

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