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Quotes by Soldier
"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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"Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers."
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"When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out."
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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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"I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed."
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"The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure."
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"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers."
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"The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all."
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"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
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"The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages."
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"It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake."
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"And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have."
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"We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold."
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"If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more..."
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"It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980."
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"When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says."
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"There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book."
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"Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation."
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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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"I gave my parole once, and it has been shamefully violated by the British Government; I shall not give another to people on whom no faith can be reposed."
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"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."
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"I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't."
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"There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them."
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"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."
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"I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to."
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