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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?
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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America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.
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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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Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.
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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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