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Elizabeth Samet
"The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself."
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Source : Elizabeth D. Samet (2007). “Soldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point”, p.55, Macmillan
Elizabeth Samet
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“I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.”
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“Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.”
Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.178, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Paint yourself into a corner so that you don't have any other option but to continue forward.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished”
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“It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty”
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“When you are free of form and not confused, you are focused. To be free of form externally is 'Zen.' Not to be confused internally is 'meditation.' External Zen and internal meditation, this is what we mean by 'Zen meditation.”
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“Work hard. Don’t quit. Be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful. Also, never whine, never complain. And always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.”
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“No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!”
Source : Hester Lynch Piozzi (1926). “The letters of Mrs. Thrale”
