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"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
"As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life."
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
"Much like humans, opinions come in all shapes and forms, but in the end, they are just what they are; and may yet still be categorized in nature. The first you might say is the Indoctrinal, which is, of course, dictated by community and necessity, by the human need for acceptance; secondly, there is the Personal, and this is often dictated by individuality, by the yearning to seem interesting and intelligent, or free, or special; and lastly comes the Emotional. This is most commonly dictated by circumstance and bitterness and excitement. However, rarely do we find the case in which any of these are dictated by reason in the pure state: it is by this we see that at the core of a number of false opinions lies not always misinformation but quite often some issue of the human self."
"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
"I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel bastards. And I dislike heroes. You can't trust the buggers. They always let you down. I don't believe in the natural nobility of kings, because a large percentage of them in our history have turned out to be power-crazed idiots. And I certainly don't believe in the wisdom of wizards. I've worked with their modern equivalents, and I know what I'm talking about."
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"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
"It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign."
"When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail."
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone."
"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
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