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Quotes by Soldier
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
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"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."
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"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
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"The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted."
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"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
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"A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence."
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"The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all."
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"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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"Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft."
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"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
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"I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for out independence."
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"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
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"Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation."
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"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
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"I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry."
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"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
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"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
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"It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective."
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"We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance."
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"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."
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"But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate."
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"Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost."
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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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"We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by very many people."
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"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
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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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