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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on

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Douglas MacArthur
Age: 84 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 26
Died: 1964
Died: April 5
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
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It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!
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Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them.
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Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.
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Security lies in our ability to produce.
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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
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Life is a lively process of becoming.
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The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled.
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I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.
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Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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