“The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.”
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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