"By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue."

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Source : Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.

Chester W. Nimitz

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“One of my failings as a new reporter is that I don't know when to stop. It's a very fine line, and I think that's a really important skill to have - to know when to stop asking questions. Iâ€™m still trying to figure that out.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.”

Source : Randy Alcorn (2015). “Happiness”, p.71, NavPress
“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.”
“If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.”
“It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.”

Source : "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.
“The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.”
“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.”
“You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.”

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