"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men"
- Attributed to Abraham Lincoln

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"The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him."
- Confucius

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"So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."
- Sun Tzu

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"Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines"."
Major General Chesty Puller, USMC

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"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us…they can't get away this time"
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC

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"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 june 1918. Leading Marines at Belleu Wood.

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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill  (about the Royal Air Force)

Thats the last one for tonight I promise, I got kinda over excited…

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You can also put all in one post next time.

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Yer sorry that was dumb I should have thought to do that. Guess thats why your the pilot and I'm the Jarhead.

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To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution
means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day
life patterns.
Frances M. Beal

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"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees!"
Emiliano Zapata

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Isn't that a Klingon saying?

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They stole every proverb from us.

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"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
"Self-Pity" by D.H. Lawrence


"Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain?" "Don't know!" "It lets you know you're not dead yet!"
Master Chief Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen, GI Jane)


Remember, there are no bad crews, only bad leaders.
Master Chief Urgayle (Viggo Mortensen, GI Jane)

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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman

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"TIE pilots are just suicidal, and TIE defender pilots are plain bloodthirsty.  But TIE interceptor pilots, they're suicidal and bloodthirsty.  When you see a squad of those maniacs flying your way you better hope that your hyperdrive is operational."

~Kyle Katarn

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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F Kennedy

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
- Bruce Lee

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
- John F Kennedy

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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Viscount Morley

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Subject: Modern Philosophies

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you tried.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

For every action, there is a equal and opposite criticism.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Succees always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

The colder the X-Ray table, the more body is required on it.

The hardeness of butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

To steal ideas from one person is plagerism, to steal from many is research.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Two wrongs are only the beginning.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of imcompentence.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. (Corrolary: You never learn to pray until your kids learn to drive!)

Monday is a terrible way to spend 1/7th of your life.

*My favorite* The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."  Ronald Regan.