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Take calculated risks.
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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George Smith Patton
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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
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We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Remember praise is more valuable than blame.
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When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.
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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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If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.
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If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.
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A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
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...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.
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Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.
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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
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