It is unclear exactly what went down on October 26, 1881 at Tombstone, Arizona, but history calls it the "Shootout at the OK Corral". We do know that Wyatt Earp walked away, and five of the Clanton Gang didn't. There don't seem to be a lot of quotes on shootouts, exactly, but here are several on shooting. Today's Quotes: Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell, 1903 - 1950 I started shooting when I was much too far away. That was merely a trick of mine. I did not mean so much as to hit him as to frighten him, and I succeeded in catching him. He began flying curves and this enabled me to draw near. - Manfred von Richthofen, 1892 - 1918 The supreme irony of business management is that it is far easier for an inadequate CEO to keep his job than it is for an inadequate subordinate.... At too many companies, the boss shoots the arrow of managerial performance and then hastily paints the bullseye around the spot where it lands. - Warren Buffett I want to see you shoot the way you shout. - Theodore Roosevelt, 1858 - 1919 You never know how people are going to wind up. I'm using my degrees in political science, electrical engineering, computer science, and psychology to teach gunfighting. - Linden B. Sisk |
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