"His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky."

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Source : David Morrell (2011). “First Blood”, p.13, David Morrell

David Morrell

#Military Quotes #Kids Quotes #Kentucky Quotes

“Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.”
“I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of... What you don't know know don't hurt you, for it ain't real. They called that Idealism in my book I had when I was in college, and after I got hold of that principle I became an Idealist... If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.”
“The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.”

Source : Andrew Comiskey (2009). “Strength in Weakness: Healing Sexual and Relational Brokenness”, p.25, InterVarsity Press
“Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.”
“I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters”
“Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.”
“The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.”
“I'm not even a household name in my own household”

Source : "Sacrificial lamb gets a roasting" by John Rawling, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2001.

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