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I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important.

~Norman Schwarzkopf

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Nobody can ever pin you down when you speculate.

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But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

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I get angry at a principle, not a person.

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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

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I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'

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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

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I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

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All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.

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I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: August 22nd, 1934

Died: December 27th, 2012

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