"We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands."

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Source : General Holland M. Smith (2014). “Coral And Brass”, p.39, Pickle Partners Publishing

Holland Smith

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“I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?”
“People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.”
“Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.”
“I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.”
“In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on sueing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Meat Loaf, singer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2010.
“Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born. If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we're healing.”
“Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.”
“I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.”

Source : "Rashida Jones Interview I LOVE YOU, MAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 19, 2009.

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