Oliver North Quotes
As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.
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Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
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When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
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Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
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As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.
