"The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps."

-- Alexander Vandegrift

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“History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.”
“It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.”
“It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.”
“Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.”
“I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.”
“Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Jenny, if you're so conÂvinced I'm a loser, why did you bullÂdoze me into buyÂing you cofÂfee?' She looked me straight in the eye and smiled. 'I like your body,' she said.”

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