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Quotes by Soldier
"What is good for Germany is right, and everything that harms Germany is wrong."
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"A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush."
Help,
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"Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments."
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"Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility."
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"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
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"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."
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"I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election."
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"Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start."
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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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"In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time."
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"With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed."
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"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
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"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
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"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."
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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
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"Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces."
God,
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"A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence."
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"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."
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"The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism."
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"I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law."
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"One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune."
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"I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone."
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"Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement."
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"Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg."
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"All things fade and quickly turn to myth."
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"And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights."
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"I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing."
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"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."
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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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"Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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