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General Order Number 3

“The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired laborer.”

Juneteenth (June 19, 1865)

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Attitude Courage Knowledge Leadership Wisdom

What I AM

Dr. Maya Angelou (2013)

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Attitude Expectations Freedom Knowledge Leadership Possibility Values Wisdom

What I am … NOT

Richard Williams (2015)

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Knowledge Values Wisdom

What you know yourself to be …

Because you are a character doesn’t that you have character.

– Mr. Wolf (Harvey Keitel/Pulp Fiction)

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Discipline, means …

Doing what has to be done,
How it has to be done,
Every time.

– Gerard Carlse (adapted from Robert M. Knight‘s, One Man Basketball Clinic, 1981)

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Attitude Knowledge

Complete Victory

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

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Essential Learning

Know what you have.

Do what you can.

Find a way.

– Gerard Carlse (Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other, by Ken Dryden, p. 121)