"I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told."

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Lynndie England

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“I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models...”
“It is reported of the peacock that priding himself in his gay feathers he ruffles them up; but spying his black feet he soon lets fall his plumes. So he that glories in his gifts and adornings should look upon his corruptions, and that will damp his high thoughts.”
“We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.”

Source : James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”
“I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.”
“We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.”
“It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.”

Source : Frederick William Robertson (1871). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.775
“I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.”
“The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.”

Source : John Galsworthy (2009). “25 Plays”, p.488, Wildside Press LLC

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