AJ B’s Reviews > A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection > Status Update
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09:39 06/28/21
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New Vernon, NJ
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
— Jun 28, 2021 06:40AM
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New Vernon, NJ
“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”
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AJ B
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11:59 07/21/21
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New Vernon, NJ
My experience has shown that under pressure a sense of history is what holds us together.
— Jul 21, 2021 08:59AM
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New Vernon, NJ
My experience has shown that under pressure a sense of history is what holds us together.
AJ B
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09:52 07/12/21
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New Vernon, NJ
We must realize that laws merely delineate a floor in our behavior, a minimum acceptable level of ethical standards, and that moral standards can and should be set on a higher plane.
— Jul 12, 2021 06:52AM
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New Vernon, NJ
We must realize that laws merely delineate a floor in our behavior, a minimum acceptable level of ethical standards, and that moral standards can and should be set on a higher plane.
AJ B
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09:00 07/02/21
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New Vernon, NJ
in the world of the intellectual, ideas meet with ideas, and anything goes that is presented cleverly and with assurance. But in the practical world, ideas meet with facts, facts which make mincement of wrong ideas and throw the pieces in the ashcan of history.
— Jul 02, 2021 06:00AM
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New Vernon, NJ
in the world of the intellectual, ideas meet with ideas, and anything goes that is presented cleverly and with assurance. But in the practical world, ideas meet with facts, facts which make mincement of wrong ideas and throw the pieces in the ashcan of history.
AJ B
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22:11 07/01/21
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New Vernon, NJ
Sigmund Freud has classified The Brothers as one of the three greatest tragedies ever written, in the same league with Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex—and all three deal with parricide.
— Jul 01, 2021 07:11PM
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New Vernon, NJ
Sigmund Freud has classified The Brothers as one of the three greatest tragedies ever written, in the same league with Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex—and all three deal with parricide.
AJ B
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17:04 06/28/21
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New Vernon, NJ
“Jim,” he said, “when you go up there, don’t spend all your time trying to box in the dope-offs. The few you’ll get aren’t worth it, and they won’t be kidding anybody. Spend your time doing your best to challenge and inspire those tigers at the other end of the spectrum. That’s where the long run payoff of that institution resides.”
— Jun 28, 2021 02:04PM
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New Vernon, NJ
“Jim,” he said, “when you go up there, don’t spend all your time trying to box in the dope-offs. The few you’ll get aren’t worth it, and they won’t be kidding anybody. Spend your time doing your best to challenge and inspire those tigers at the other end of the spectrum. That’s where the long run payoff of that institution resides.”
AJ B
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21:00 06/25/21
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Nantucket, MA
But I mean we in America are children of the sea for much deeper reasons which have to do with the intellectual history and the cosmology of the Western mind. Because, you see, America was not discovered, it was invented.
— Jun 25, 2021 06:00PM
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Nantucket, MA
But I mean we in America are children of the sea for much deeper reasons which have to do with the intellectual history and the cosmology of the Western mind. Because, you see, America was not discovered, it was invented.
AJ B
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10:03 06/25/21
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Nantucket, MA
It has been said that good judgment is based on experience, but that, unfortunately, good experience is based on bad judgment.
— Jun 25, 2021 07:04AM
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Nantucket, MA
It has been said that good judgment is based on experience, but that, unfortunately, good experience is based on bad judgment.
AJ B
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12:03 06/24/21
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Nantucket, MA
In Mahan’s words, “the great warrior must study history.”
— Jun 24, 2021 09:03AM
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Nantucket, MA
In Mahan’s words, “the great warrior must study history.”
AJ B
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08:46 06/23/21
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Nantucket, MA
Admiral Stockdale’s life story, personal philosophy, and the lessons he passed on to us are not mysterious, difficult to find, or hard to remember. Living them out—in bad or good times—is the test.
— Jun 23, 2021 05:46AM
Kindle
Nantucket, MA
Admiral Stockdale’s life story, personal philosophy, and the lessons he passed on to us are not mysterious, difficult to find, or hard to remember. Living them out—in bad or good times—is the test.
