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Quotes by Soldier
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."
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"Among various demands and charges I gave them, was, that the said flag should be delivered to me, and one of the United States' flags be received and hoisted in its place."
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"The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone."
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"Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death."
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"Trust should be the basis for all our moral training."
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"There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry."
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"There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement."
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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
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"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."
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"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?' You would be ashamed to confess it! And then remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present, and the power of this is much diminished if you take it in isolation and call your mind to task if it thinks that it cannot stand up to it when taken on its own."
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"The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe."
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"You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it."
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"What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it."
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"War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
War,
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"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
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"Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable."
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"It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed."
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"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities."
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"I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think."
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"When you run up against someone else's shamelessness, ask yourself this: Is a world without shamelessness possible?No. Then don't ask the impossible. There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members."
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"But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here."
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"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."
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"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?"
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"Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living."
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"Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode."
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