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Quotes by Soldier
"Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender."
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"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."
30
"In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash."
30
"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it."
30
"It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark."
30
"The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution."
30
"I think investments in general related to the exercise industry are going to be good for a long time."
30
"This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more."
30
"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates."
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"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."
30
"Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry."
30
"A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect."
30
"Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops."
30
"Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence."
30
"Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history."
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"We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape."
30
"Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined."
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"I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat."
30
"As you become more present in your own life, you will begin to enlighten others by your example."
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"The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment."
30
"Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students."
30
"The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God."
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"There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long."
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"My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian."
29
"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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"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't."
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