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Jai Ganesh

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Combat Quotes - I

Combat Quotes - I

1. Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson

2. Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3. There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. - Jimmy Carter

4. In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. - Steven Spielberg

5. I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat. - George H. W. Bush

6. I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. - Plato

7. One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over. - Tom Hanks

8. I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get? - Buzz Aldrin.

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