"I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country."

-- Jean Larteguy

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“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
“The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.”
“In all modesty, my summing up of 1955-6 and 1956-7 must be that no club in the country could live with Manchester United.”
“The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press
“In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2012). “Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays”, p.37, tredition
“I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.”

Source : Interview with Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.
“Either way, everything will be fine. But if you have an opinion, please feel free to offer it to me through the gap in the door of a public restroom. Everyone else does.”
“I never count countries. Travel is not a contest.”

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