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“Hang your idea on a peg that all can read.”
Source : c.1907 Quoted in Oliver Carlson Brisbane: a Candid Biography (1937), ch.7.
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“Wretched unfair, it is,†he remarked. “Of the three of us, I’m the one who’s always collected the rare and unusual, yet you two managed to snag the world’s most unusual women. First you, Crispin, with the only living half-breed, who then turned into an even more unusual vampire. And now you, Charles, have bagged a shape-shifter. Thought you were joking when you said Denise was the kitty. I’m simply green with jealousy”
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“I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.”
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“I honestly believe that all of my work have the type of impact that will allow me to create some unique opportunities.”
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“To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.”
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“A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.”
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“My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world . I'm in it.”
Source : Bill Mauldin, United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications (1978). “Mud & guts: a look at the common soldier of the American revolution”, Government Printing Office
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“Just look at the Judiciary Committee, You have some people on the Judiciary Committee who may well decide not to send the nomination to the floor, and now it all depends on what Democrats do.”