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Quotes by Soldier
"The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
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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."
29
"Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free."
29
"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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"When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off."
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"Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig."
Will,
29
"Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq."
29
"When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac."
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"To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do."
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"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"
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"I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do."
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"It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat."
28
"The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people."
28
"Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is."
28
"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."
28
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
28
"The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time."
28
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
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"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."
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"Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists."
28
"It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society."
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"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
27
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
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"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.""
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