"The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing."

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Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

Karl Marlantes

#Marine Quotes #Taught Quotes #Killing Quotes

“God is just what happens when humanity is connected.Â Humanity connected is god. Each one of us is a creator but, together, we are THE creator.”
“If you want, then start to laugh, If you must, then start to cry, Be yourself don't hide Just believe in destiny. Don't care what people say Just follow your own way Don't give up and use the chance To return to innocence.”
“The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.”
“I'm a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.”
“Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And thatâ€™s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.”
“I am in control at all times.”
“Burning one hectare of grassland gives off more, and more damaging, pollutants than 6,000 cars. And we are burning in Africa, every single year, more than one billion hectares.”
“I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.”

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