It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.


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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't tr...
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the w...
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. Sh...
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better o...
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on ...
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnatio...
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But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pa...
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Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary ...
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get fo...
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's ski...
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then yo...
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did...
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if y...
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see our...
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A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new f...
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Miles had sworn his officer's oath to the Emperor less than two weeks ago, puffed with pride at his ...
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin...
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I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible...
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Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles; you h...
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Vormurtos leaned on the frame with his arms crossed, and failed to move aside.

At Miles's...
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Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gi...
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Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how g...
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Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.
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He let his head rest against the crisp cloth of her uniform jacket a moment longer. She shifted, her...
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Mon Dieu, it’s the little admiral,” she said cheerfully. “What are you doing here?” Ignoring...
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The door was locked. The control had been buggered. Miles ripped it apart, shorted it out, and heave...
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How does a kidnapping grab you?” She giggled inexplicably. “Absolutely not!” “Oh, you’re g...
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We’re just good friends,” caroled Miles, and laughed hysterically. He lunged for the comconsole�...
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You make yourself sound like a Venn diagram. ‘The set of all sets which are members of themselves�...
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Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—
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. . . people do get hypnotized by the hard choices. And stop looking for alternatives.
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I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me,...
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