George C. Marshall Quotes
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
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I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.
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I'm not here to win a popularity contest.
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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
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Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
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Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
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Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.
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Credit is an 'I love debt' score.
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Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.
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I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.
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I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
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'I don't even know who I am.''In a way,' answered Gwydion, 'that is something we must all discover for ourselves.'
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That can definitely mess with your music - if you overthink. 'What's radio going to think?' or 'What are these people going to think?'
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Any fool can make a quilt; and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.
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I will give you the best I have.
