"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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"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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"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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Marilyn Monroe, American Actress

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"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

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Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."

"Time, motion and wine cause sleep."

"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

"The future is what matters - because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present - like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot."

"Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood."

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

"Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying "I don't want to."

"Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown."

"So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

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"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."

"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."

"The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more."

"Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America."

"I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running."

"America's trying to do the best for its veterans."