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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
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“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
― Rules of Civiility and Other Writings & Speeches
― Rules of Civiility and Other Writings & Speeches
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