"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week."
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"Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.“
-George S. Patton
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