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Quotes by Soldier
"It is not the business of generals to shoot one another."
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"Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have. 2 Try not to hurt other people. 3 Take more chances. 4 If you fail, keep trying."
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"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions."
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"Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there."
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"I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services."
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"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."
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"Hold on to anything you find that's good and workable for you. Drop anything negative where you find it."
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"That's all I cared about too, was getting it right."
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"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
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"I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression."
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"6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break:1. Stop stressing. 2. Stop worrying. 3. Give rest to the problems weighing you down. 4. Lighten up. 5. Forgive yourself. 6. Forgive others."
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"I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally."
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"Things that will make you unstoppable;Get the naysayers out of your life,Take charge of your destiny,Be uncommon,Be relentless, andNever look backwards."
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"Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them."
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"Don't settle for living mediocre. Focus on all the positive and embrace it. Ignore the negative and be thankful for every single day."
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"American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature."
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"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding."
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"In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it."
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"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
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"I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere."
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"The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other."
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"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."
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"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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"Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
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"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
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"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
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"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
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"In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement."
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"But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life."
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