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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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If I were asked to define leadership, I should say it is the projection of personality. It is the most intensely personal thing in the world because it is just plain you.
The qualities that distinguish a leader from other men are courage, will power, initiative, and knowledge. If you have not got those qualities you will not make a leader; if you have them, you will.
- Field Marshal Sir William Slim from an address at West Point, circa 1950:
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January 14
1943: Casablanca conference begins, Churchill and Roosevelt agree to prepare for invasion of France and meanwhile (once North Africa is conquered) to invade Sicily
1950: A North Star aircraft from the Experimental and Proving Establishment, based in Rockcliffe, Ontario, completes the first non-stop trans-Canada flight
1952: HMCS Uganda is renamed Quebec
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