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Quotes by Soldier
"In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning."
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"The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul."
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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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"The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away."
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"Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them."
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"As to whether the people who were supposedly to put up the money and did put it up or whether it was Arthur's own money is something which I shall never know."
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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."
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"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
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"Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams."
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"Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."
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"Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence."
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"I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people."
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy."
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"One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic."
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"I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene."
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"I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."
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"I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd."
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"The enemy fights the hardest when you are closest to your breakthrough. Know that your best days are ahead and no weapon formed will prosper."
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"Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that."
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"Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live."
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"Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down."
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"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."
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"If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online."
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"If the gods have determined about me and about the things which must happen to me, they have determined well, for it is not easy even to imagine a deity without forethought; and as to doing me harm, why should they have any desire towards that? For what advantage would result to them from this or to the whole, which is the special object of their providence? But if they have not determined about me individually, they have certainly determined about the whole at least, and the things which happen by way of sequence in this general arrangement I ought to accept with pleasure and to be content with them."
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
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"The more positive you are the more people want to be around you and the less positive you are...well, just reverse it!"
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