"My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job."

-- Frank Buckles

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“After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?”
“And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.”
“When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
“When it comes to guys, make sure you are treated like a princess, always.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
“Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?”
“She handed him a glass of water and two Aleve gelcaps. â€œTheyâ€™re anti-inflammatories. They will dull the pain a little bit and keep down swelling and redness. Swallow the pills, donâ€™t chew.â€ â€œWell, I thought Iâ€™d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, Iâ€™ll swallow them.”
“If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!”

Source : Richard Chenevix Trench (1838). “Sabbation: Honor Neale : and Other Poems”, p.168

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