A Quote by Tony Slydini
A good general chooses his battlefield.
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There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.
Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in the spiritual army is never off his battlefield. He is only removed to another part of the battlefield when a wound interrupts what he was meant to do, and sets him doing something else.
At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.
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If the whole world is a battlefield, then the United States is also a battlefield.
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He who chooses to be a master never does 'just enough' to get by - nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?
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