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“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet,”
‘On your death bed, you’re visited by the person you could have been.’
‘A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what a ship is made for.’
Fear wasn’t something you could control, not really. You could only control how you reacted to it.
“I’m very concerned. This is my concerned face.” Her expression was deadpan.
She liked Burke. He’d been an excellent choice, perhaps even better than Nolan. Nolan was good, but he was far too self-reliant. Officers learned to make use of their subordinates.
“Are you telling me that…politics prevents you from doing what is necessary to win the war for our species’ survival?”
Much of what made a warrior deadly was mental—the ability to force your body past what you believed it capable.
that you never let the men see your fear.
