"I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy."

-- Karl Marlantes

#Military Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What happens to one directly happens to all indirectly.”
“I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.”
“Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.”
“To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.”
“Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week”
“From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.”
“Women should not need a permission slip from government to take care of their own reproductive health.”
“Where today people surf the web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.”

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