Rudyard Kipling Quotes
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
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Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
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Climate change is a reality.
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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.
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He couldn’t organize a fuck in a barrel full of whores.
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All I know is that I'm young and your rules they are oldIf I've got to kill to live then there's something left untoldI'm no statesman I'm no general. I'm no kid I'll never beIt's the rules not the soldier that I find the real enemy.
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And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
