Quotes

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“Service is the rent you pay for room on this planet.”

- Shirley Chisholm

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“When our hope breaks, let our patience hold.”

- Thomas Fuller

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“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.”

- Dr. David M. Burns

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“The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something. ”

- Catherine Hicks

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“Look outward and be distressed, Look inward and be depressed, Look upward and be at rest. ”

- Corrie ten Boom

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“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

- Mother Teresa

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“We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.”

- Lee Iacocca

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“Just remember, when youre over the hill, you pick up speed.”

- Charles M. Schultz

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“When our hope breaks, let our patience hold.”

- Thomas Fuller

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“He is the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.”

- Benjamin Franklin

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“Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet.”

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“First keep the peace within yourself, then you can bring peace to others.”

- Thomas Kempis

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“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.”

- Hudson Taylor

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“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!”

- Lucy, Peanuts

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On Guard in Oahu, 1945

There was nothing macho about the war at all. We were a bunch of scared kids who had a job to do.

- E. R. Sledge (WWII, Pacific)

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Walking to Humvees in Iraq, 2005

You see your guys out there, and you say, 'I'm not going to let those guys go solo.'

- Sgt. Jeffrey Grothause (Afghanistan)

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On Board the USS Lexington, 1943

I wanted to be a hero...The war'd been going on for two years. I didn't wanna miss it...I was an American. I was seventeen.

- Roger Tuttrup (WWII, Pacific)

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USS Bunker Hill Is Attacked, 1945

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

- Elliott Johnson (WWII)

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Lookng Out for Insurgents in Iraq, 2004

I thought of my wife and children, I said a quick prayer for them and was ready to die.

- Intelligence Specialist Chief (Air Warfare) Mark W. Bell (Desert Storm)

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Gunning for the Enemy

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

- Hervey Allen (WWI)

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On the Offense in Iraq, 2005

I switched my weapon to fire and emptied it. I was scared out of my mind and furious at the same time.

- Sgt. Ryan Kelly (Iraq)

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Wounded in Korea, 1950

I overheard a doctor tell a corpsman, "Put that one over there. He won't make it." How I prayed it wasn't me he was talking about.

- S/Sgt Lee Bergee (Korea)

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Evacuating a Wounded Soldier, 1967

The tough part is close-up. Seeing what a bullet can do to your friend.

- Lt. Larry Gwin (Vietnam)

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Leaving Marshall Islands, 1944

...the American people have no idea what all-out war is. We never tasted it. I hope we never do.

- Peter Bezich (WWII, Pacific)