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Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain.
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Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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Studious of ease and fond of humble things.
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The flowers anew returning seasons bring!But beauty faded has no second spring.
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There solid billows of enormous size,Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.
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The stag in limpid currents with surpriseSees crystal branches on his forehead rise.
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Timely blossom, Infant fair,Fondling of a happy pair.
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And thou shalt in thy daughter see,This picture, once, resembled thee.
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Wearied then and glad of rest,Like the linnet in the nest.
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the German today is like the June Bride. He knows he is going to get it, but he doesn't know how big it is gong to be.
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I instinctively dislike ever to uphold the conservative as opposed to the bold
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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Vice-President Aaron Burr was full of plots and schemes and conspiracies to break the west loose from the United States and form a new nation. Jefferson
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By the beginning of March, K Company, 333rd Regiment, had reached the Rhine. The men settled down in the village of Krefeld to await Montgomery's Operation Plunder, the crossing of the river; Monty was planning the operation with as much care as he had put into Operation Overlord, so the pause was a long one. By some miracle, the men found an undamaged high-rise apartment building in which everything worked--electricity, hot water, flush to..
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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In the excitement of a charge, or in the enthusiasm of approaching victory, there is a sense of pleasure which no one should attempt to underrate." General Horace Porter, aide-decamp to General Grant Custer" --
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buckshot;
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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Hitler insisted on the superiority of the Aryan race, but his closest allies were the Italians, and he accorded the Japanese the dubious accolade of
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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They were learning about others. A common experience: the guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone's pick to be the top soldier in the company, was the first to break, while the soft-talking kid who was hardly noticed in camp was the standout in combat. These are the cliches of war novels precisely because they are true. They
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Over the next two months Eisenhower labored
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Addis Ababa;
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So it had always been and apparently would be. The terms "peace" and "war" as understood by the Americans had no meaning to the Indians. Hostilities could break out at any time, for no apparent cause other than the restlessness of the young warriors, spurred by their desire for honor and glory, which could only be won on raids, which always brought on revenge raids, in a regular cycle. The captains were hopelessly naive on this point. Lewis..
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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The Natchez Trace seemed much safer to him than risking a sailboat from New Orleans to Washington,
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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On the edge of town, Fitzgerald saw a sight "that has never left my memory. It was a picture story of the death of one 82nd Airborne trooper. He had occupied a German foxhole and made it his personal Alamo. In a half circle around the hole lay the bodies of nine German soldiers. The body closest to the hole was only three feet away, a potato masher [grenade] in its fist.II The other distorted forms lay where they had fallen, testimony to th..
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick--dead!
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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So intense was the partisanship of the day, so much did the Federalists hate and fear Jefferson, that they were ready to turn the country over to Aaron Burr. Had they succeeded and made Burr the president, there would almost certainly be no republic today. Fortunately for all, Hamilton was smart enough and honest enough to realize that Jefferson was the lesser evil. He used his influence to break the deadlock. On the thirty-sixth ballot, Fe..
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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whiskey. The chiefs were "exceedingly fond of it, they took up an empty bottle, Smelted it, and made maney Simple jestures and Soon began to be troublesom." Clark"
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1939 New York World's Fair,
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Stuka dive-bomber and the tank.
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SHAEF had prepared for everything except the weather. It now became an obsession. It was the one thing for which no one could plan, and the one thing that no one could control. In the end, the most completely planned military operation in history was dependent on the caprice of winds and waves. Tides and moon conditions were predictable, but storms were not. From the beginning, everyone had counted on at least acceptable weather for D-Day.
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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On the beach, men saw Father Lacy "go down to the water's edge and pull the dead, dying, and wounded from the water and put them in relatively protected positions. He didn't stop at that, but prayed for them and with them, gave comfort to the wounded and dying. A real man of God."22"
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Pvt. Felix Branham was in that boat. "Colonel Canham had a BAR and a .45 and he was leading us in," Branham said. "There he was firing and he got his BAR shot out of his hand and he reached and he used his .45. He was the bravest guy."23"
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We sometimes forget, I think, that you can manufacture weapons, and you can purchase ammunition, but you can't buy valor and you can't pull heroes off an assembly line.
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There was no room on this new road for Crazy Horse, the greatest warrior of them all. Perhaps Touch-the-Clouds had this in mind as he looked down on those courageous, confused people. "It s well," he said quietly, reassuringly. "He has looked for death and it has come." The Oglalas filed away, silently, into the night." --
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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No, I realize that you didn't think of it! But I did.
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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Adding to the problems of frustration and anger caused by the point system was the combination of too much liquor, too many pistols, and too many captured vehicles. Road accidents were almost as dangerous to the 101st in Austria as the German Army had been in Belgium. In the first three weeks in Austria, there were seventy wrecks, more in the six weeks of June and July. Twenty men were killed, nearly 100 injured.
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Messina,
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U.S. history that while the nation fought its greatest war against the world's worst racist, it maintained a segregated army abroad and a total system of discrimination at home.
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The result of these shared experiences was a closeness unknown to all outsiders. Comrades are closer than friends, closer than brothers. Their relationship is different from that of lovers. Their trust in, and knowledge of, each other is total. They got to know each other's life stories, what they did before they came into the Army, where and why they volunteered, what they liked to eat and drink, what their capabilities were. On a night ma..
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That extra special, elite, close feeling started under the stress Capt. Sobel created at Camp Toccoa. Under that stress, the only way the men could survive was to bond together. Eventually, the noncoms had to bond together in a mutiny.
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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Sobel was Jewish, urban, with a commission from the National Guard. Hester had started as a private, then earned his commission from Officer Candidate's School (OCS). Most
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Currahee was more a hill than a mountain, but it rose 1,000 feet above the parade ground and dominated the landscape.] A few minutes later, someone blew a whistle. We fell in, were ordered to change to boots and athletic trunks, did so, fell in again--and then ran most of the three miles to the top and back down again." They lost some men that first day. Within a week, they were running--or at least double-timing--all the way up and back."
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Stephen E. Ambrose |
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Aleutian Islands.
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