Ernie Pyle Quotes
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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I never was a very good singer.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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I would really love to play a superhero. That is definitely up there on my list. Captain Marvel especially. That would be so cool.
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Oh, Night will not see thirty again, Yet soft her wing, Miranda; Pick up your glass and tell me, then - How old is Spring, Miranda?
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying,What tune the enchantress playsIn aftermaths of soft SeptemberOr under blanching mays,For she and I were long acquaintedAnd I knew all her ways.
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The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.
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If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
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I've always been someone who, without wanting to or without trying to, I draw attention to myself sometimes in negative ways. It made me sharp, and it made me quick.
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If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
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I'm such a dog person. I dunno, I just feel like it really enriches your life, to have something to care for.
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Death is the quiet haven of us all.
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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
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Our American money system is structurally brittle. It doesn't matter if you put a very clever guy or a stupid guy at the wheel. The clever guy will take a half hour to have an accident, and the stupid guy will take ten minutes.
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But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
