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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Joseph Heller

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Country Crazy Executive Scare
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Angel Decent Heaven Human Impulse Poeple Saint Tragedy
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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Bulling Difficult Drug Endurance Failure Meditation Success Suicide
You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
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Ashame Failure Trick
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
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Acceptance Bad Luck Destiny Injustice
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Children Favor Influence Liberation Parents War
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old

Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

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