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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Douglas MacArthur

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I came through and I shall return.
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Came Through Return
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
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The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
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I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
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The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of Earth must some day make a common front against attack by people from other planets.
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Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
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Never ask age of a woman.
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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Curse Die End Goran Growl Soldier Sweat
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
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WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH.
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In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.
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Both Enormous Mutual Side Suicide Wage War
No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on
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The chickens are coming home to roost, and you happen to have just moved into the chicken house.
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