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James Stockdale Quotes: It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.
         

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.


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I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.

I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.



The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.

The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure.



Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.



Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.



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Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.



A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.



Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.

Do the right thing even if it means dying like a dog when no one's there to see you do it.



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I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.



Entitlement and privelege corrupt.

Entitlement and privelege corrupt.



The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.





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Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.



But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.



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Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.



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I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.



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Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.



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You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.




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