"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
-George S. Patton
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"Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.“
-George S. Patton
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"Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war."
-George S. Patton
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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
-George S. Patton
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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
-George S. Patton
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"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time."
-George S. Patton
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"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear."
-George S. Patton
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"We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible."
-Tom Conway
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"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
-Archibald Wavell
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"For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language."
-Fabrice Luchini
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"For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play."
-Penelope Leach
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"Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter."
-William Allan
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"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."
-Lloyd Bentsen
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