Who said: "Uncommon Valor Was Common Virtue?"?
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Adm. Chester Nimitz in response to a question about Iwo Jima in WWII
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only three words- "the virtue of selfishness" \nbefore i heard this i used to think that i was becoming very selfish everytime i did something to surpass others i.e.not only when we were competing. \nnow i know that it is only natural.
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There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.\n- Thomas Jefferson.\nhttp://www.amren.com/\nhttp://www.nationalvanguard.org/\nhttp://www.wnd.com/\nhttp://vdare.com/
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Hones Abe! he is the example of the saying. you can be anything you want to be.  He had great ideas,I have read several books on him. He was really the best General, from both sides,during the Civil War.
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The famous GW quote.\n\nFool me one, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me\n+\nWon't Get Fooled Again - by The Who\n= \none fool too many
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I read this quote somewhere, and it really spoke volumes of truth and inspiration to me. I stumbled upon it at a time when I wasn't feeling very confident about myself, but from the time I read it, I don't burden myself with senseless insecurities anymore. \n\nIt's from a rather unexpected person, but, credit must be given where credit is due:\n\n"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."\nSalma Hayek
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Chances are, the answer could be something like:\n\nBecause he proves that no matter where he is he holds himself to a high moral standard, and he expects others to do the same.\n\nListing what chapter/the circumstances of the chapter would've been a smart way to ask.
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I prefer the philosophy of George S. Patton.\n\n"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
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That is kind of a tricky little quote. Sometimes placing it in context can help. This is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Self Reliance," which discourages basing one's opinions and actions on common opinion in favor of self-trust (see the full essay at http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm). \nI think the point of this quote is that it's very desireable to have one's own original thoughts and opinions, and to live by them.  It's easier to live by one's own convictions and not be persuaded by others when in isolation (that's the "independence of solitude"). However, not so special to isolate oneself from others in order to attain this ideal. Because it's difficult to live by one's own thoughts and opinions while being a part of society, it's something only a "finished man" can truly do. Also, in the essay, Emerson refers to being childlike - unselfish, non-judgmental, open-minded, uncynical, unhesitant - as something to admire. So I think that's where the seemingly misplaced "perfect sweetness" comes in. When a man can remain pure of heart while living in the harsh world and also keeping and living by his own ideals. \nWhat do you think?
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Don't know who said it recently but it's a quote from Shakespeare\n\n"Cry HAVOC' and let slip the dogs of war!" - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III
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Good question:\n\nMaybe Society or people in general.  Also, if its a quote it could just mean that you dont know who originally said it.
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V\n\n"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.\n\nThe only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
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Richer than most. Who said that life is fair?
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"Capitalism is the unequal sharing of fortunes; Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."\n\n-- Winston Churchill
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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." \n- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)\n\n"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." \n- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) \n\n"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." \n- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) \n\n"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." \n- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat \n\n"His ignorance is encyclopedic" \n- Abba Eban (1915-2002) \n\n"If a man does his best, what else is there?" \n- General George S. Patton (1885-1945) \n\n"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." \n- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) \n\n"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." \n- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) \n\n"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." \n- Saint Augustine (354-430) \n\n"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." \n- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) \n\n"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." \n- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) \n\n"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." \n- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) \n\n"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." \n- Galileo Galilei \n\n"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." \n- Emile Zola (1840-1902) \n\n"This book fills a much-needed gap." \n- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review \n\n"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." \n- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) \n\n"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." \n- e e cummings (1894-1962) \n\n"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." \n- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) \n\n"Assassins!" \n- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra \n\n"I'll moider da bum." \n- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare \n\n"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." \n- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut \n\n"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." \n- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) \n\n"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." \n- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" \n\n"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." \n- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) \n\n"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." \n- Henry Ford (1863-1947) \n\n"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." \n- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') \n\n"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." \n- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) \n\n"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." \n- George Burns (1896-1996)\n\n\n"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." \n- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)\n\n\n"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." \n- Edsgar Dijkstra\n\n\n"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." \n- Bjarne Stroustrup\n\n\n"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." \n- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)\n\n\n"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting b
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Thomas Jefferson is my political hero so it's not surprising that I agree wholeheartedly. Interestingly, one of Jefferson's contemporaries in Great Britain made a similar quotation which happens to be a personal favourite of mine. His name was Edmund Burke and this is what he said:\n\n"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."\n\nSee the similarity? Basically, the message is the same and it's particularly relevant today. If good men and women of conscience are unwilling to stand up and be counted, to speak out or to take action when necessary, then the villains win. Of course it's easier and safer to remain silent like sheep in the fold, but is the easy and safe way always best? I hardly think so. Sometimes you have to make a stand, take up a cause or vote with your feet. And some causes are quite literally worth fighting and dying for. If others who came before us hadn't thought so and demonstrated that belief at the cost of their own lives, where would we be now?
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I don't know who said it, or the actual quote but it went along the lines of, "If you have 1 true friend, then you have succeeded in life".  I have plenty of true friends and I already feel like my life has mattered (whether for the better or worst I cannot say).  I remember a discussion we had in a class once in which a teacher said, no matter what we do, we will not matter in the large scale of things.  I disagreed of course and stated of course we change history.  For example, what if the man who invented the atom bomb were never born?  What if the people who researched penicillian had different paths and what if certain events, such as a teacher telling a student to get back in line and the student following through never occured?  Had that teacher not been there, the students' world could be very different.\n\nSo, I think everyone's life does matter in some way shape or form, unless you have no interaction with anyone at anytime your life does matter.  And even if you don't, in some way you are still a part of the earth, even when you die and become the ground again.