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“When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.”

Feels War Break Stress Internals Combat Dishes Fatigue Break Out Weariness

Author:Byron Katie

“We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must build character in peacetime because there is no time in war. Character is the most important quality you can find in any person, but especially in a soldier. It is the foundation that will get anybody through anything he may encounter. Reputation is what people think you are; character is what you are- that is the staying power.”

People Thinking May Persons Important War Character Order Quality Principles Army Foundation Soldier Reputation Temptation Compromise Encounters Staying Combat Rigor Staying Power

Author:Glen E. Morrell

“The equipment and weaponry will continually change and improve, and the size of the military will expand as needed, decreasing during times of peace. But the unyielding will of the soldier and the dedication of professional military leaders will not change. Our soldiers can do a great deal more under pressure than people think. You'd have to see them perform in combat to believe it.”

People Thinking Believe Can Do Deals Leader Military Needed Army Pressure Soldier Size Combat Dedication Equipment Under Pressure Weaponry Unyielding Military Leader

Author:George W. Dunaway

“Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning.”

“Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.”

Heart Lasts Fighting Blood Military Beats Fuel Aviation Combat Military Aviation

Author:Manfred von Richthofen

“The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.”

Firsts Saws Military Shots First Time Aviation Combat Jet Aircraft Military Aviation

Author:Chuck Yeager

“Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange. If we accept them we will never win. Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic, We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.”

Ifs War Winning Sin Accepting Conditions Strange Army Noses Realistic Combat Being Real Bloody Mundane

Author:George S. Patton

“We are confident. We have ourselves. We know how to sacrifice. We know how to work. We know how to combat the forces that oppose us. But even more than that, we are true believers in the whole idea of justice. Justice is so much on our side, that that is going to see us through.”

Knows Ideas Whole Force Sides Justice Know How Sacrifice Believer Combat True Believer

Author:Cesar Chavez

“The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.”

Ifs Giving War Situation Objects Conflict Normal Training Unexpected Combat Officers Unusual Poise Disequilibrium

Book:Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War

Source: Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War

“All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.”

Men Firsts Lasts Fighting Military Battle Coward Combat Cowardice Manhood Entering Timidity Allowance Manliness Bashful Bashfulness

Author:George S. Patton

“The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.”

People Country Kids Jobs Fighting Support Military Fields Combat Uniforms Representation Rifles

Author:Tom Clancy

“Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.”

Source: Roads from Past to Future

“If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

“For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods-all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science-and act before it's too late.”

“The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.”

Ifs Should Shows Evil Break Influence Habit Protect Authority Addiction Combat Pornography Plague Erase Obedient Priesthood Protect You Succumbing

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.”

Mean Evil Democracy Violence Depends Development Survival Combat Renunciation

Author:A. J. Muste

“One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.”

Way Country Use Poor Poverty Growing Development Best Way Combat Assistance Private Sector

Author:John Danilovich

“I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.”

Made Justice Happened Smart Flying Combat Pilots Airplane

Author:Francis Gary Powers

“I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Military Weapons Solutions Iraq Combat

Author:Charles W. Freeman, Jr.

“We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.”

Said War Force Support Needed Members Training Iraq Missions Combat Equipment Degrade Safe Haven Islamic State Isil Kurdish

Author:Barack Obama

“It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.”

“Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.”

Ifs Children Form Religious Education Offers Filled Educational Meals Combat Educate Housing Extremism Vacuums Extremist Religious Extremism

Author:Hillary Clinton

“President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended "don't ask don't tell," and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs - because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons.”

Jobs America Asks President Liberty Military Son Listening Capable Daughter Combat President Obama Fairness Badass Commanders

Author:Tammy Duckworth

“What the founders of modern science ... had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, and a new concept of science - and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.”

“They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...”

Civil War Combat Elephants Last Words American Civil War Deathbed Famous Last Words Infantry Dying Last Words Soldiers At War Funny Famous Last Words Dodging Bullets

Author:John Sedgwick

“Thank God for running. It is the ultimate detox for me, whether my poison is bubbles, a foul mood, or a bad attitude. If I combat inertia, get out, and get moving, eventually every kind of toxin works its way out.”

Ifs Way Kind Running Moving Attitude Ultimate Mood Poison Combat Thank God Bubbles Foul Inspirational Running Inertia Bad Attitude Toxins Get Moving

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the proposed task. The only people who can say they have renounced the fruit are those who, thus equipped, feel no desire for the results of the conquest, and remain absorbed in combat. You can renounce the fruit, but this renunciation does not mean indifference toward the result.”

People Knows Feels Mean Doe Desire Passion Results Activity Letting Go Capacity Tasks Fruit Objectives Indifference Combat Conquest Renounce Renunciation

Author:Paulo Coelho

“This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, not tolerate error as long as reason is left free to combat it.”

Mind Humans May Long War Reason Truth Left Drug Institutions Errors Human Mind Combat Not Afraid Tolerate War On Drugs

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“‎For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar; no army he sanctified could know defeat; no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him; he fought like the gods themselves.”

Knows War Winning Battle Army Defeat Storm Combat Dozen No War

Author:Janet Morris

“My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”

War Majors Fellows Iraq Missions Operations Accomplished Combat Iraq War Banner Mission Accomplished

Author:George W. Bush

“[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!”

Ifs Two Done Problem Force Enemy Courage Battle Tasks Lays Critical Ships Repeats Combat Santa Commanders Spine Nelson Cruz Dodge Admiral Thistles Task Forces Santa Cruz

Author:William Halsey

“And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn - the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda in Iraq, the professionalism of the training of Iraqi security forces, and the steady drawdown of our forces. In handing over responsibility to the Iraqis, you preserved the gains of the last four years and made this day possible.”

“The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.”

War Self Form Passion Sports Modern Football Basketball Function Bigger Rage Soccer Boredom Frustration Nationalism Substitutes Temporary Combat Acceptable Identification Transference

Author:Edward Abbey

“Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.”

Happens Energy Learning Teacher Teaching Depends Optimism Pressure Fundamentals Educational Setting Settings Frustration Combat Classroom Learners Draining

Author:David Perkins

“This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.”

World Effort Steps Threat Climate Climate Change Combat Historic Steps Forward

Author:Kofi Annan

“The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The variation we are seeing in temperature or rainfall is double the rate of the average. That suggests that we are going to have more droughts, we are going to have more floods, we are going to have more sea surges and we are going to have more storms. These are the sort of changes that are going to affect us in quite a short timescale”

Government Seeing Sea Happenings Evidence Harder Climate Rate Climate Change Average Storm Combat Flood Temperature Variation Drought Tackling Rainfall Unequivocal

Author:John Beddington

“Heating bills this winter are the highest they've been in five years, but President Bush has a plan to combat rising bills. It's called global warming.”

Years President Five Plans Highest Bills Winter Rising Five Years Global Warming Combat President Bush Heating

Author:Jay Leno

“[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.”

Political Standards Constitution Combat Amendments Foe Banner Rejecting

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.”

America United Ready Thousand Ambition Hundred Soldier Combat Troops Veteran Handful Exhibits Posture National Defense

Book:The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

Source: The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

“Studies by Medical Corps psychiatrists of combat fatigue cases... found that fear of killing, rather than fear of being killed, was the most common cause of battle failure, and that fear of failure ran a strong second.”

War Found Strong Causes Common Cases Study Battle Killing Medical Ran Combat Antiwar Fatigue Fear Of Failure Psychiatrist

Book:Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War

Source: Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War

“First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the 'benefactor' of mankind. Since his new benevolence has a practical foundation, he cannot very well adhere to the old Biblical recommendation, that the left hand should not know what the right hand giveth.”

“Boxing is the magic of men in combat, the magic of will, and skill, and pain, and the risking of everything so you can respect yourself for the rest of your life.”

Men Pain Magic Skills Boxing Combat Rest Of Your Life Respect Yourself

Author:F.X. Toole

“The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive and lead the way in the transformation required to combat global warming? Resilient Cities gives us a road map for this epic journey upon which we are embarking.”

Way Giving Feels Firsts Care Kids Opportunity Cities Journey Century Twenties Transformation Stores Global Warming Maps Combat Epic Who Cares Candy Resilient Road Maps Embarking Candy Stores

Author:Greg Nickels

“Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.”

Hands Agents Experts Combat Librarian Counterintelligence

Book:The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity

Source: The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity

“The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.”

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]”

“When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt”

Kind Hands Hurt Weapons Chains Combat

Author:Lucy Liu

“Living as if the world out there were somehow separate from us opens the door to the belief system of judgement and the chemical expressions of that judgment in our bodies. Thus we tend to see our world in terms of good germs and bad germs, and use words such as toxins and waste to describe the by-products of the very functions that give us life. It is in such a world that our bodies may become a combat zone for forces at odds with one another, creating the biological battlegrounds that play out”

“I'll tell you what. I've been in combat. I've seen it, I've been close to it... and if my unit is danger, and I've got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it's life or death, he's going first.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Eye Guy Enemy Danger Combat Units Captured Life Or Death

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.”

Purpose Fiction Loneliness Combat

Author:Josh Radnor