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Quote by George S. Patton

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”

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George S. Patton was an American military commander born on November 11, 1885, and died on December 21, 1945. Known for his unique leadership style and tactical prowess, Patton is one of the most controversial military figures in American history. more

“The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the same truth – only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.”

Source: The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

“I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl”

World Gone Clock Puppy Meadows Shackles Unleashed Stargirl

Book:Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.”

God Joy Faith Peace Presence Of God Infallible Peace With God Spiritual Joy Simple Joys Joy God

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.”

Knows Looks Kind Ethics Tendencies Work Ethic Protestants Saying No Rubbish Protestant Work Ethic

Author:Jo Brand

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”

Real My Own Faults Harm Damage Sufferers

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.”

Children Real Earth Environment Rain Crisis Environmental Leaving My Children Environmentalism Earth Day Tennessee Eco Friendly Environmental Crisis Earth Friendly Conserving Environment Destroying The Earth

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!”

Sky Ocean Depth

Book:The best of Rilke: 72 form-true verse translations with facing originals, commentary, and compact biography ; translated by Walter Arndt ; foreword by Cyrus Hamlin

Source: The best of Rilke: 72 form-true verse translations with facing originals, commentary, and compact biography ; translated by Walter Arndt ; foreword by Cyrus Hamlin

“See Scott run, Run Scott run. See Scott die, No such luck.”

Running Dies Luck

Book:Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Source: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

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