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06-25-2006, 05:51 PM
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
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06-25-2006, 05:57 PM
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Alexei Ivanovich Voronin (sovjet soldier 2nd WW): ''Today, I crossed the Elbe river in Germany and shook hands with an American soldier. Although I could not understand anything he said, I felt this man was my brother. And I think he felt the same. ''
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06-25-2006, 06:27 PM
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts."
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06-25-2006, 07:06 PM
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"In war there is no prize for the runner-up."
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war
than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."
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06-25-2006, 07:21 PM
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"The end, is the beginning, is the end" -Billy Corgan
"The moment you are born you start dieing"
Life sucks then you die
"You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son." -Eddie Temple (Layer Cake)
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06-25-2006, 08:03 PM
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"He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever." -Chinese Proverb
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"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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06-26-2006, 11:56 AM
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"The goal of war is not to die for your country, it is to make the other SOB die for his!"
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06-26-2006, 04:21 PM
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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
"In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash."
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must
suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were
filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them."
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06-26-2006, 04:28 PM
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"So long as there are men there will be wars."
"We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we
make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important
or closer to my heart."
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06-26-2006, 06:53 PM
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"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin
"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem."
- Joseph Stalin
"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance."
- Joseph Stalin
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06-26-2006, 07:32 PM
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"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard
die for his."
- General George S. Patton
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God
that such men lived."
- General George S. Patton
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06-26-2006, 08:22 PM
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Damn - Patton has said the same in mnay different ways... makes you wonder if he ever said it at all... 
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06-27-2006, 07:04 AM
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"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
- Ernest Hemingway
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
- Ernest Hemingway
"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers."
- Francois Fenelon
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06-27-2006, 08:05 AM
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Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing so pleasing as to be shot at by one’s enemy without result.
- Winston Churchill
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off,
but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
- Confucius
The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the
Air Force has accomplished during the war.
- Chesty Puller in a letter to his wife while in Korea
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day
- Unknown
"Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam." or in english-
I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head
Artillerymen believe the world consist of two types of people; other Artillerymen and targets.
- Unknown
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06-27-2006, 08:10 AM
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an orginization is like a tree full of monkeys, the monkeys on the top look down just to see happy faces while the monkeys on the lower side look up just to see assholes
-Chinese proverb .. .a really good one 
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