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		I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Marlantes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rae Carson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imogen Heap 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Floyd Skloot 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olivia Culpo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Isaac Hanson 
			 
			
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		Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paolo Gentiloni 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Quintilian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Imelda May 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hamza Yusuf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damien Hirst 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zachary Taylor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zhang Zhidong