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Have fun in your command. Don't always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you've earned it, spend time with your families.
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Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'
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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
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Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
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Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
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Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
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Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.
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You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
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