"Watch what people are cynical about, and..." - Quote by George S Patton
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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“All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.”
“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
“There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.”
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“The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.”
“A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.”
“Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other”
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“Stupidity talks, vanity acts.”
“Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watchingmen fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.”