Bill Mauldin Quotes
Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!
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The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
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Theological or anti-theological argument to prove or disprove the existence of a deity seems to me to occupy itself largely with skating among the difficulties caused by our making a fetish of this word existence.
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If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.
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Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
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It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.
