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"I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War."
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"That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you."
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"Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields."
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Personal Development
"We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy."
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"However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops."
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Personal Development
"Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped."
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Personal Development
"All oppression creates a state of war."
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Personal Development
"In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war."
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"In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer."
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"The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them."
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"It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can."
Truth
"Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?"
Health
"My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another."
Work
"The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity."
Man
"Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability."
Habit
"Does politics have to be injected into everything?"
Politics
"I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed."
Peace
"I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."
College
"In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems."
Peace
"Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later."
Priority
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