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Quotes by Soldier
"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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"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
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"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."
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"We will smite the Jews where we meet them and whoever goes along with them must take the consequences."
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"When you focus on being the best person you can be, you draw the best possible life, love, and opportunities to you."
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"Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye."
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"All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that."
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"Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives."
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"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
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"Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker."
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"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
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"Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty."
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"But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country."
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"I expect that on the 1st of August, the SA will be once more ready for duty."
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"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
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"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
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"The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went."
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"And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end."
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"I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems."
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"Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry."
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"Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you."
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"During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village."
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"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Fear,
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"I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers."
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"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
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"We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so."
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