"No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all."

-- George Orwell

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“I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.”
“Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.”
“The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.”

Source : NELSON A. MILES (1911). “SERVING THE REPUBLIC”
“I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.”
“You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.”

Source : "Carolyn Hax Live: Hootenanny of Holiday Horrors 2015". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 11, 2015.
“If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.”

Source : Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX
“I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out of a difficult relationship before that. So I said to her, 'Listen, you have to understand something. Relationships are like eyebrows. It's better when there's a space between them.' And that's coming from a Greek guy.”
“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”

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