"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."

-- William Westmoreland

#Running Quotes #Operations Quotes #Hanoi Quotes

“The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.”
“The primary object of a student of literature is to be delighted. His duty is to enjoy himself, his efforts should be directed to developing his faculty of appreciation.”
“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”

Source : Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.289, Cambridge University Press
“But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.”
“The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.”
“If I can walk, I'll play.”
“There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.”
“We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.”

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