Wil S. Hylton Quotes
Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow; but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
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We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.
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The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button in California and twenty people are incinerated at a wedding in Pakistan. The killer is spared the sight of the corpses.
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Given the record of this administration, 'trust us' is not a safe enough answer for the American people.
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Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.
