"My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals."

-- James Ira Thomas Jones

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“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”
“I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us.”
“Sometimes thereâ€™s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.”
“Investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. If you've got talents, no one can take them from you.”
“The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.”
“Intercourse is an assertion of mastery, one that announces his own higher caste and proves it upon a victim who is expected to surrender, serve, and be satisfied.”
“That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.”
“Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.”

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