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• I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I…
• Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time…
• It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called "progress" to alter our lives without…
• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned…
• The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.
• Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.
• All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.
• Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but…
• When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain…
• Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.
• What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the…
• The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

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