"Officers conditioned to conformity in peacetime cannot be expected to behave boldly and flexibly in combat."

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Paul Yingling

#Conformity Quotes #Combat Quotes #Behave Quotes

“The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that... young people don't have hope.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.”
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country,”
“The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest...”

Source : Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”
“Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]”
“The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it's just the thing that every man wants - to have a son and heir.”

Source : "DJ Chelsea Leyland Talks Music and Fashion!". Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 26, 2011.
“No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.”
“It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too, and in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally. ... This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times.”

Source : "Iran at the Millenium, by Robin Wright". Excerpt from The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2001), www.pbs.org.

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