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Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
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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Old Blood and Guts
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George Smith 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.
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Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?
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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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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.
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