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Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it.
Topic: Sports
Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues.
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Topic: Education
Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.
March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger."
Topic: March
Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
Topic: Words
The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.
Topic: Growth
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
The great lie of the news media: "I am the public".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
Author: Unknown
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Topic: Censorship
Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 If one thing is clear as soon as the Church becomes serious about its missionary and ministerial calling for the world, it is that two difficult roads in particular have to be trodden: first, the road towards overcoming the scantiness of its knowledge of the world of today, and its ignoring of what really goes on in the world under its surface; secondly, the road towards reforming its spirit, atmosphere, and inherited structure, in so far as they give no room for new vitality... What can and must be said and resaid, with all gratitude for what in many places is already happening, is that a fearless scrutiny and revision of structure is one of the most urgent aspects of a renewal of the Church.
Good people are always so sure they're right.
I own the soft impeachment.
Topic: Confession
O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
Topic: Conscience
Author: Dante
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
Topic: Secrecy
Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.
Topic: Weeping
With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.
Topic: Stupidity
The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
Grief. The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal.
Topic: Grief
Author: C S Lewis