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and stood straight as a sentry on post, hands at her sides. “You know something, Sam? It’s all a pretty little fraud. This whole band-playing, spit-and-polish system you’re wound up in. It is simply insane. The system says you’re all noble ...more
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J.D. Vance
“As a culture, we had no heroes. Certainly not any politician—Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is), but even when the country was enraptured by his rise, most Middletonians viewed him suspiciously. George W. Bush had few fans in 2008. Many loved Bill Clinton, but many more saw him as the symbol of American moral decay, and Ronald Reagan was long dead. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbors could even name a high-ranking military officer. The space program, long a source of pride, had gone the way of the dodo, and with it the celebrity astronauts. Nothing united us with the core fabric of American society. We felt trapped in two seemingly unwinnable wars, in which a disproportionate share of the fighters came from our neighborhood, and in an economy that failed to deliver the most basic promise of the American Dream—a steady wage.”
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

John Scalzi
“It’s this: Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.”
John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

Hampton Sides
“A stagnant navy,” noted one maritime scholar, “was no place for a man on the make.”
Hampton Sides, In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

T.R. Fehrenbach
“Oddly, they were never sanguine about their own combat prowess. Most of them, officers and men, felt a deep respect for, and almost an inferiority before, the various professionals that comprised the other U.N. troops in Korea. Their praise of the allies—the French, Thais, Turks, and Abyssinians—was far removed from the grousing about allies that had marked most previous wars. Most Americans, privately, would admit the U.N. troops were better than they were.”
T.R. Fehrenbach, This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War

Bernard Cornwell
“This world isn’t governed by honorable men, but by lawyers and politicians, and whenever such scum come across an honest man they have to kill him.”
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe's Devil

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