Merritt A. Edson famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.
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There it is. It is useless to ask ourselves why it is we who are here. We are here. There is only us between the airfield and the Japs. If we don't hold, we will loose Guadalcanal.
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The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?
-- Merritt A. Edson
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We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
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You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
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No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives
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We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.
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Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
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There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.
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It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.
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One's too many and a hundred's not enough.
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You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more
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