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Make your plans to fit the circumstances.
George S. Patton
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George S. Patton
Age: 60 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 11
Died: 1945
Died: December 21
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Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.
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But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.
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In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the spur of the moment will have to make the most momentous decisions. But I believe that one's spirit enlarges with responsibility and that, with God's help, I shall make them, and make them right.
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Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen
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Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.
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My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either.
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A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.
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An incessant change of means to attain unalterable ends is always going on we must take care not to let these sundry means undo eminence in the perspective of our minds for, since the beginning, there has been an unending cycle of them, and for each its advocates have claimed adoption as the sole solution of successful war.
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
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When everyone agrees, someone is not thinking.
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It is rather interesting how you get used to death.
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The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.
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Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
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