"This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place."

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Source : Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.66, Atlantic Books Ltd

Karl Marlantes

#War Quotes #Victory Quotes #Vietnam Quotes

“The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.”
“No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.”
“A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.”

Source : Writing for the court, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 1962.
“Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.”
“Quantum physics is one of the hardest things to understand intuitively, because essentially the whole point is that our classical picture is wrong,”
“If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.”
“People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.”
“People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.”

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