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American Forces Press Service


Worth Repeating



WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 1998 –  

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895
English biologist
 
"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success."
Lord Chesterfield
English politician
1694-1773
 
"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
U.S. president
1917-1963
 
"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."
Arab proverb

"Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with."
John Wanamaker
American businessman
1838-1922