"Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time."

-- Sebastian Junger

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“There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the scriptures only as sources of inspiration and moral truth," and then ask in their smugness: "Do the revelations of God give us a handrail to the kingdom of God, as the Lord's messenger told Lehi, or merely a compass?"”
“When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator's own plan for continuing the human race.”

Source : Naomi Ragen (2010). “Jephte's Daughter”, p.73, Macmillan
“If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life [than a non-believer].”
“Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowÂardice is [..].”

Source : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.16, Vintage
“With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington. They must be "cool but determined" he had told the men before the battle, when spirits were high. Now, in the face of catastrophe, he was demonstrating what he meant by his own example. Whatever anger or torment or despair he felt, he kept to himself.”
“Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a long way off.”
“Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.”

Source : "Caps' Ovechkin says he is not ready to wear the 'C'". The Chronicle Herald, September 06, 2006.
“I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.”

Source : "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 9, 2006.

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