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"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars."
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"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
People
"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
Being
"I don't take criticism lying down."
Criticism
"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
Leadership
"The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names."
War
"We had the best food any battlefield ever had."
Food
"By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"
Thought
"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
Opinion
"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
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