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The world’s greatest river network—that of the Mississippi and its six thousand miles of navigable tributaries—directly overlies the world’s largest piece of arable land, the American Midwest.
“There was an aura about 1914 that caused those who sensed it to shiver for mankind. Tears came even to the most bold and resolute.”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
― Mrs. Warren's Profession
“Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!”
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“But to us of a later generation...it is inconceivable that millions of Christian men should have killed and tortured each other, because Napoleon was ambitious, Alexander firm, English policy crafty, and the Duke of Oldenburg hardly treated. We cannot grasp the connections between these circumstances and the bare fact of murder and violence, nor why the duke's wrongs should induce thousands of men from the other side of Europe to pillage and murder the inhabitants of the Smolensk and Moscow provinces and to be slaughtered by them.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“The M-16 sure is a marvelous gun, and in a god-awful war it provides some keen fun. The bullet it fires appears too small to harm but it makes a big hole and can tear off an arm. Single shot, semi, or full automatic, a real awesome weapon, ’tho in performance sporadic. But listen to Ichord and forget that stuck bolt, for you aren’t as important as a kickback from Colt. So carry your rifle (they don’t give a damn), just pray you won’t need it while you’re in Vietnam. The M-16 is issue, though we all feel trapped. More GIs would protest, but somehow they got zapped.”
― The Gun
― The Gun
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