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"Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive."
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David Hackworth
"Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive."
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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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Fritz Sauckel
"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested."
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"We come to beginnings only at the end."
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William Throsby Bridges
"We come to beginnings only at the end."
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"Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II."
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Adolf Galland
"Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II."
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"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents."
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Omar N. Bradley
"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents."
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"After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war."
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Janis Karpinski
"After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war."
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"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion."
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Douglas Bader
"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion."
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"These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious."
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Ethan A. Hitchcock
"These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious."
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"The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny."
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Ernst Rohm
"The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny."
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"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
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Chester W. Nimitz
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
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"This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them."
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Gideon Welles
"This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them."
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"I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing."
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Robert Morgan
"I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing."
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"It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with."
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William Wiley
"It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with."
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"Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place."
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John Buford
"Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place."
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"My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible."
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George Armstrong Custer
"My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible."
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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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William Odom
"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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"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
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William Tecumseh Sherman
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell."
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"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation."
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Lewis Cass
"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation."
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"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land."
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Moshe Dayan
"Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land."
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"Every people should be originators of their own destiny."
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Martin Delany
"Every people should be originators of their own destiny."
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"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
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Oliver North
"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
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"The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions."
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Erwin Rommel
"The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions."
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"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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William Westmoreland
"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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"The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years."
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George Crook
"The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years."
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"I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries."
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Fritz Sauckel
"I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries."
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"Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free."
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Anthony Wayne
"Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free."
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"When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture."
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Robert Morgan
"When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture."
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"5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:1 Post content that add value. 2 Spread positivity. 3 Create steady stream of info. 4 Make an impact. 5 Be yourself."
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Germany Kent
"5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:1 Post content that add value. 2 Spread positivity. 3 Create steady stream of info. 4 Make an impact. 5 Be yourself."
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"To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose."
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Giulio Douhet
"To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose."
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"Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel."
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Ethan A. Hitchcock
"Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel."
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"It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner."
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Vernon A. Walters
"It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner."
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"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
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Wilfred Owen
"Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War."
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"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
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William Westmoreland
"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
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"I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should."
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William Odom
"I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should."
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"I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."
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James Stockdale
"I think character is permanent, and issues are transient."
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"God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually."
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John Newton
"God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually."
God,
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"I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan."
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Jay Garner
"I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan."
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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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Nelson A. Miles
"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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"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way."
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Alex Morrison
"However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way."
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"I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea."
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Oliver North
"I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea."
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"The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations."
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Nelson A. Miles
"The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations."
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"The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles."
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Ira Hayes
"The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles."
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"I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it."
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George Stoneman
"I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it."
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"I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy."
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Oliver North
"I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy."
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"Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large."
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John Byng
"Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large."
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"It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness."
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Moshe Dayan
"It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness."
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"We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason."
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Barry McCaffrey
"We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason."
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"When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience."
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Robert Jenkins
"When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience."
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"The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else."
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Germany Kent
"The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else."
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"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
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James Longstreet
"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
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