"I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going."

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Eddie Slovik

#Week Quotes #Infantry Quotes

“You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928”

Source : Title of book (1928)
“I suddenly realized that a bunch of my friends needed babysitters and vowed to start screening my calls.”
“He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.”
“People won't give you feedback until they think you actually want it.”
“Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.”
“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”
“My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Each of us must come to care about everyone else's children. We must recognize that the welfare of our children and grandchildren is intimately linked to the welfare of all other people's children. After all, when one of our children needs lifesaving surgery, someone else's child will perform it. If one of our children is threatened or harmed by violence, someone else's child will be responsible for the violent act. The good life for our own children can be secured only if a good life is also secured for all other people's children.”

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