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It is rather interesting how you get used to death.
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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The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.
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The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
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You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things.
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To conquer, we must destroy our enemies. We must not only die gallantly we must kill devastatingly. The faster and more effectively you kill, the longer you will live to enjoy the priceless fame of conquerors.
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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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When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.
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We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.
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The soldier is the army.
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You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
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All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.
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Just drive down that road, until you get blown up
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