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"It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."
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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."
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"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."
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"You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did."
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"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."
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"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."
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"I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot."
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"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons."
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"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."
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"I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share."
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"It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth."
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"Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp."
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"It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can."
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