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Quotes by Soldier

"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
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Robert Morgan
"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."
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"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."
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R. Lee Ermey
"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."
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"Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing."
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George Kenney
"Air power is like poker. A second-best hand is like none at all - it will cost you dough and win you nothing."
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"That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war."
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James Longstreet
"That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war."
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"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."
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Alfred Rosenberg
"National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung."
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"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen."
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Horatio Nelson
"It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen."
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"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
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Robert Morgan
"I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess."
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"Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life."
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Heinrich Himmler
"Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life."
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"But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter."
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"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."
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George Crook
"We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past."
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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."
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Hugh Shelton
"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."
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"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values."
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Marcus Aurelius
"A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values."
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"If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future."
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Germany Kent
"If you do not have control over your mouth, you will not have control over your future."
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"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
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Wilfred Owen
"Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!"
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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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Germany Kent
"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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"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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Marcus Aurelius
"You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long."
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"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man."
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George Crook
"It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man."
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"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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James Stockdale
"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."
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"A military life has ever comported with my inclination."
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George Stoneman
"A military life has ever comported with my inclination."
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"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out."
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"Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom."
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"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."
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Horatio Nelson
"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."
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"I expect we will become more demanding as citizens."
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Robert Anderson
"I expect we will become more demanding as citizens."
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"Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent."
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Kenneth H. Cooper
"Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent."
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"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
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William Throsby Bridges
"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
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"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye."
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"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."
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Wilfred Owen
"Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both."
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"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."
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Nelson A. Miles
"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."
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"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues."
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Alex Morrison
"I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues."
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"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
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Christopher Gadsden
"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."
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"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate."
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"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."
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Robert Baden-Powell
"The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself."
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"Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too."
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Curtis Lemay
"Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too."
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"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."
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Zebulon Pike
"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."
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"The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard."
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Julius Streicher
"The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard."
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"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war."
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"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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William Westmoreland
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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"The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years."
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George Crook
"The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years."
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"Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh."
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Martin Bormann
"Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh."
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"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
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Zebulon Pike
"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
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"There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell."
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"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"
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George S. Patton
"The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!"
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"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."
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"Now God be praised, I will die in peace."
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James Wolfe
"Now God be praised, I will die in peace."
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"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms."
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Zebulon Pike
"I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms."
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"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
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Douglas MacArthur
"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
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"The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history."
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Lew Wallace
"The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history."
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"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
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Robert Morgan
"Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast."
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"Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said."
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Germany Kent
"Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said."
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"A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve."
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Marcus Aurelius
"A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve."
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