"It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand."

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Steven Erikson

#Soldier Quotes #Half Quotes #Dozen Quotes

“How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!”
“I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.”
“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.”
“Itâ€™s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.”
“A man who is right by your side through everything makes you happy. But he can leave your side to make dinner once in a while!”
“As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly news.We are told it would be pornographic.”
“No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1895). “Farrar Year Book: Selections from the Writings of the Rev. Frederic W. Farrar ...”
“For my part, I can compare her (a gossip) to nothing but the sun; for, like him, she knows no rest, nor ever sets in one place but to rise in another.”

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