American - Soldier | August 22, 1934 - December 27, 2012
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army, and I'm very proud of that. But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being.
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I am not one of these guys who is just going to waste American lives by throwing people needlessly in frontal attacks up against the enemy if I can avoid doing that.
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For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
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When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.
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They say the good Lord doesn't charge you for the days you hunt and fish, and I believe that.
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With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.
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Hey, I'm not a politician. I'm a ham. I love to give speeches.
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War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.
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I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.
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