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Quotes by Soldier
"A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding."
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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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"But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times."
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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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"The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council."
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"If one of us, any of us, any American is traveling in a town somewhere in America and a medical crisis hits them, for someone who is diabetic or perhaps has heart disease or some other problems, where do we get the records to determine what to do?"
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"As a person who has spent my career as a child psychologist and have dealt with many children who have struggled with many problems in families, I have seen families ripped apart by so many things that sometimes law has tried to deal with."
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"We know that these clashes with Asia and Jewry are necessary for evolution."
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"We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded."
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"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
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"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."
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"Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy."
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"Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs."
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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."
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"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."
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"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe."
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"It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought."
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"Young writers find their first audience in little magazines, and experimental writers find their only audience there."
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"The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
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"Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach."
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"The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics."
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"The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?"
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"Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God. It will be worth it."
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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
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"Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates."
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"But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility."
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"Life is a stranger's sojourn a night at an inn."
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
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