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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 that complies against his will is of his own opinion still."
"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."
"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."
"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."
"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."
"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
"As uncomfortable as it might be, I refuse to let the comfort of being agreed with suffocate my opinions."
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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."
"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."
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy."
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