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09-18-2015, 07:06 PM
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“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
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"The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear." — David Drake 
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09-18-2015, 11:12 PM
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One of my (many) favourite scenes from Platoon:
Taylor: It's the way the whole thing works. People like Elias get wasted. People like Barnes just go on making up the rules any way they want. So what do we do? Sit in the middle and suck on it. We just don't add up to dry shit, King. King: Whoever said we did, man? All you got to do is make it out of here, and it's all gravy. Every day, the rest of your life, gravy.
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 "It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli
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09-20-2015, 05:56 PM
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--Ike, about Gen. MacArthur: "I studied theatrics under him for five years."
--Gen. Wm. T. Sherman, to Union medical officers complaining about the strongwilled "Cyclone in Calico" Maryanne "Mother" Bickerdyke's red-tape shredding methods of caring for wounded troops: "She ranks me!"
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"Let's roll." Todd Beamer, aboard United Flight 93 over western Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001.
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