The truth of the matter is ...

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
 Norman Schwarzkopf

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I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

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A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
 Norman Schwarzkopf
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
 Norman Schwarzkopf
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
 Norman Schwarzkopf
How do you fight someone who doesn't care if they get killed? You accommodate them.
 Norman Schwarzkopf
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
 Norman Schwarzkopf