"The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine."

Source : T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.482, Open Road Media

T. R. Fehrenbach

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“One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place ...”

Source : Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
“My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.”

Source : "Elizabeth Banks on Becoming a Director, Mentoring Young Women". Interview with Alex Stedman, variety.com. June 5, 2015.
“Look for the seams (on a knuckleball) and then hit in-between them.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.”
“This is a lifelong dream of mine and I'm very very glad to be with you,”

Source : "Diana Nyad becomes first to swim from Cuba to Florida without shark cage" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. September 02, 2013.
“If I want to keep making films for a few more years, I probably should be willing to adapt. I've sort of evolved into the filmmaker that I am because of natural selection anyway.”
“No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.”

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