"They can shout down the head of the……" — James Stockdale
"They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech."
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James Stockdale
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29 Quotes by James Stockdale
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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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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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I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might…
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Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the…
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There is, however, a strong empirical reason why we should cultivate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that…
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In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a…
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The truth is, no one wants to face the fact that there was a huge double standard in baseball, and…
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For quite some time, I have wanted to live on the central coast of California and get more involved at…
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There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
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I went to a school in N.Y. that is conceptual and interdisciplinary and modeled after Cal Arts. It is not…
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I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all,…
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