A Quote by David Petraeus

We're all outriders out there, and what we have is all these large number of tasks - that's the herd; that's all the cattle - a whole bunch of individual, hundreds if not thousands of projects at any given time ongoing that we're trying to complete. So we're trying to keep the cattle herd, keep it all just going in the right direction.

David Petraeus

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David Petraeus
American - Military man
Born: November 7, 1952

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William C. Oates

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Larry McMurtry

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Frank R. Stockton

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

Aleister Crowley

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