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Washington was the right man at the right time – sometimes he was the first man, but sometimes he simply knew when to ride the crest of a wave or the leading edge of a trend.

— Alan Axelrod

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He (Patton) was tough. War is tough. Leaders have to be tough.

People might say these (my) books are frivolous, but I don't see them that way. I think they're very impressively designed – just in an unconventional format.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was very common for boys and young men to read about the lives of the so-called great men for the purpose of extracting lessons in how to be great themselves in whatever field they chose. I see these books as reviving that tradition by distilling ideas to their essence and putting them in a readily digestible form.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

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