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Quotes by Soldier
"Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack."
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"I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came."
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"But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them."
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"Be like a rocky promontory against which the restless surf continually pounds; it stands fast while the churning sea is lulled to sleep at its feet. I hear you say, "How unlucky that this should happen to me!" Not at all! Say instead, "How lucky that I am not broken by what has happened and am not afraid of what is about to happen. The same blow might have struck anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation or complaint."
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"I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation."
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"One hundred years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, the Spanish government issued a decree authorizing the enslavement of the American Indian as in accord with the law of God and man."
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"I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty."
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"In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective."
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"And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end."
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"The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy."
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"The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe."
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"America's trying to do the best for its veterans."
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"So I've broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance."
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"But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together."
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"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."
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"If all emotions are common coin, then what is unique to the good man?To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God " saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don't acknowledge it " this life lived in simplicity, humility, cheerfulness " he doesn't resent them for it, and isn't deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be."
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"There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear."
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"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
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"Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity."
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"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man."
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"Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level."
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"We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing."
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"In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back."
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"Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons."
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"Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose."
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"If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government."
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"Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became."
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"But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life."
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"Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it."
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