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Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.
Erik Prince
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Erik Prince
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Businessman
Born:
Jun 6
,
1969
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,
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,
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
Sun Tzu
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Likelihood
Him
Readiness
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Art Of War
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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Forgiveness
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Manly
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That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Chester W. Nimitz
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Needs
Relax
Defense
Our
Say
Adequate
Machines
Ourselves
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Armament
Readiness
Defend
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Live
Strong Desire
Taking
Almost
Terms
Readiness
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Die
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What we can control is our readiness.
Dan Quinn
Control
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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Action
Readiness
Springs
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Man Lives
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Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.
Mitch McConnell
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Drawing
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Only
Forces
Readiness
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Regrettable
Next
Each
When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.
Sherrod Brown
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Government
Quality
Promises
Rather
Federal
Federal Government
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Institutions
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Quality Education
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Readiness
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Should
Career
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
Aleksandar Hemon
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