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Quotes by Soldier
"If you don't put anything in place, do not expect miraculous results to appear."
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"In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible."
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"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement."
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"We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much."
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"The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy."
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"A fundamental approach to life transformation is using social media for therapy; it forces you to have an opinion, provides intellectual stimulation, increases awareness, boosts self-confidence, and offers the possibility of hope."
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"No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy."
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"American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature."
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"During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none."
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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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"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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"I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars."
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"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."
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"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."
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"There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove."
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"All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can."
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"Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later."
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"No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization."
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"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
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"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
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"It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."
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"It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals."
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"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."
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