"This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed."

-- Edward Boches

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“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”
“Mortalhood is a fine state to visit, but you'd better not call it home.”
“The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.”
“Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.”
“Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.”
“There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness.”
“All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.”
“The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic. More fantastic still, it imagined a country full of people imagining themselves.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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