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Quotes by Soldier
"In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq."
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"Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something."
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"Whatever this is that I am, it is a little flesh and breath, and the ruling part. Throw away thy books; no longer distract thyself: it is not allowed; but as if thou wast now dying, despise the flesh; it is blood and bones and a network, a contexture of nerves, veins, and arteries. See the breath also, what kind of a thing it is, air, and not always the same, but every moment sent out and again sucked in. The third then is the ruling part: consider thus: Thou art an old man; no longer let this be a slave, no longer be pulled by the strings like a puppet to unsocial movements, no longer be either dissatisfied with thy present lot, or shrink from the future."
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"We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much."
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"I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys."
Time,
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"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not."
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"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
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"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."
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"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
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"It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake."
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"A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets."
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"The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this."
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"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."
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"Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity."
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"Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis."
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"But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough."
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"Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington."
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"Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last."
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"The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill."
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"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."
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"You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."
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"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
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"Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here."
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"When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out."
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"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."
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"We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war."
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