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“You can only pretend that you're already dead and thus free yourself up to focus on three things: 1) finding and killing the enemy, 2) communicating the situation and resulting actions to adjacent units and higher headquarters, and 3) triaging and treating your wounded. If you love your men, you naturally think about number three first, but if you do you're wrong. The grim logic of combat dictates that numbers one and two take precedence.”
― Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
― Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
“Isn't this everyone's Point of View?" asked Tock, looking around curiously.
"Of course not," replied Alec, sitting himself down on nothing. "It's only mine, and you certainly can't always look at things from someone else's Point of View. For instance, from here that looks like a bucket of water," he said, pointing to a bucket of water; "but from an ant's point of view it's a vast ocean, from an elephant's just a cool drink, and to a fish, of course, it's home. So, you see, the way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.”
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"Of course not," replied Alec, sitting himself down on nothing. "It's only mine, and you certainly can't always look at things from someone else's Point of View. For instance, from here that looks like a bucket of water," he said, pointing to a bucket of water; "but from an ant's point of view it's a vast ocean, from an elephant's just a cool drink, and to a fish, of course, it's home. So, you see, the way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.”
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“The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― The Magician’s Nephew
― The Magician’s Nephew
“I became amazed at how much my men would tolerate if someone just took the time to explain the why of it all to them.”
― Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
― Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood
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