"In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes."

-- Stephen Ambrose

#War Quotes #Hero Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.”

Source : Lynne McTaggart (2008). “The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility,'”

Source : "The Stop Snitchin' Crisis; Did U.S. Military Choose Public Relations Over Truth in Tillman Death?; War of Words Over Iraq Funding Escalates". "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", April 24, 2007.
“If you're bourgeois, money is it. It's all the questions and all the answers. Ain't no E-flat or color blue, only $12.98 or $1,000. If it isn't money, it isn't nothing.”
“A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
“Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.”
“The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting”
“If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.”
“I own more shotguns than I need. But less shotguns than I want.”

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