Statistically, the infantry units had suffered over 150 percent losses through the two campaigns. The few men like me who never got hit can claim with justification that we survived the abyss of war as fugitives from the law of averages.
“guarding the world against their own people.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“The tendency to look for all causes outside ourselves persists even when it is clear that our state of being is the product of personal qualities such as ability, character, appearance, health and so on.”
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
― The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“history, rival of time, storehouse of deeds, witness for the past, example and counsel for the present, and warning for the future.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“On a good foundation you can raise a good building, and the best foundation in the world is money.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
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