"And we had our own laws. I mean,……" — James Stockdale
"And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties."
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James Stockdale
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29 Quotes by James Stockdale
James Stockdale has 29 quotes on this site.
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The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
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I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.
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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.
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I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
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I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got…
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The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my…
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Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since…
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Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
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Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It…
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Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of…
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Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into…
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More Customs Quotes
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one of 252 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen…
— Francis Bacon
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs…
— Ruth Benedict
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I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States,…
— Buffalo Bill
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I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.
— Danny Boyle
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If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files…
— Jeb Bush
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There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
— Albert Camus
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There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past…
— Graydon Carter
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
— Dante Alighieri
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
— George Washington
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I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what…
— Alexander Shulgin
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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