Robert Wilkie Quotes
Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.
Quotes to Explore
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
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The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.
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In New York - not to say New York isn't a competitive place - but there's much more of a sense of, we're all here and some of us are up and some of us are down and some of us are in the middle, but we have a longer view of history and how it works, rather than just this week.
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The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
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Big government makes small citizens.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.
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The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.
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The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.
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In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
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Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.
