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Service in this business is tough and often dangerous. It extracts a price for participants, and that price can be high.

— Stanley A. McChrystal

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As visible symbols, soldiers often receive praise or condemnation, and both reactions feel curiously undeserved.

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No outcome was preordained, but nothing would come easily. Few things of value do.

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There are few secrets to leadership. It is mostly just hard work.

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People are born; leaders are made.

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