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Quotes by Soldier
"Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember."
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"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount."
7
"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates."
7
"I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt."
7
"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."
7
"The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one."
7
"Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare."
7
"I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness."
7
"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes."
7
"We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today."
7
"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."
7
"Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration."
War,
7
"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
Fire,
7
"Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you."
7
"For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties."
7
"The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war."
7
"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."
7
"That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards."
7
"It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation."
7
"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."
7
"One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime."
7
"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions."
7
"When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews."
7
"The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then."
7
"One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity."
7
"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
7
"All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media."
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