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- Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career…
- Let me blow that up for you again.
- This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one of us who…
- Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
- In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a…
- You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has…
- Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
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