"Deplorable practices adopted during the last century were repeatedly declared necessary if regrettable in order to win the war. Oddly enough, we've yet to win. You'd think somebody would have asked before this why the regrettable but necessary measures haven't actually produced the promised results."

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Source : Jack Campbell (2007). “The Lost Fleet: Courageous”, p.73, Penguin

Jack Campbell

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“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
“The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.”
“The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.”
“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”
“I am not interested in repetition. I don't want to reach the point from where I wouldn't know how to go further. It's good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.”
“Kevin [Drew] beat me to the punch because when he first sent "Sister OK" and I'm listening to it, it took me to a place that I had not been to in a long time. It took me to a place when you're a teenager. I understand it all now, but in a moment of confusion, in a moment of trying to find some kind of solid ground in an environment that was quicksand in my life, it's that first line just kills me all the time: "Well it's just that your sister said you'd be OK."”

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“The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era..”
“Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.”

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