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"Americans never quit."
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"It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have to believe in yourself and not give up. You have to do your best to practice and get better."

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

"None of us have reached the peak of perfection, but it shouldn't stop anyone from trying to make the climb."

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith."

"If you failure, do not give up. Find new strength to climb the stairway to success."

"An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible."

"Often when we are on the path to success we come across obstacles that seem to be like mountains."

"Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon."

"In every situation, may we find the grace of endurance."

"A star will shine in the midst of darkness. A flower will bloom in the midst of dirt. A camel will flourish in the midst of doubt. A diamond will form in the midst of pressure. A champion will rise in the midst of hardship."
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"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."

"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."

"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live."

"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye."

"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes."
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