"Never apologize. It's a sign of weakness." (UNCLASSIFIED)

Thu Jul 5 15:00:15 UTC 2012

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> In Charlie's DMP Oas "Don't...")  but not in YBQ. Known to millions
because
> John Wayne says it in "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949). 121,000 hits.
>
> The movie is based partly on the short story "Command," by James
Warner
> Bellah, which appeared in the _Saturday Evening Post_ for June 8,
1946.
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> The quotation is on p. 78:
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> "Mister Cohill, never apologize. It's a mark [sic] of weakness."
>
> JL
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> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
truth."
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