"To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason."

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Paul Fussell

#War Quotes #Home Quotes #Reason Quotes

“How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.”
“To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.”
“What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.”
“People get caught up in formulaic answers. When one doesn't work, they just go on to the next.”
“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I write in the first person because I have always wanted to make my life more interesting than it was.”

Source : Diane Wakoski (1974). “Trilogy: Coins & Coffins: Discrepancies and Apparitions; The George Washington Poems”
“Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle you have fought for a century. We were there in Vietnam. We were there in Korea. We were there in Iraq. We were there in Afghanistan. We are slightly apprehensive about the rise of China.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”

Source : Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.24, Bibliolis Books

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