"We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded."

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Source : Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

Calamity Jane

#Uprising Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Six Quotes

“Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.”
“Since I've been in chiropractic, I've improved by leaps and bounds both mentally and physically.”
“There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction”
“If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes , I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.”
“Respectable people... What bastards!”
“We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.”

Source : Lena Williams (2000). “It's the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions that Get Under the Skin of Blacks and Whites”, Houghton Mifflin
“Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.”
“So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.”

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