Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.
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Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive time of day - a feeling that alone was enough to make getting drunk worthwhile.
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Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.
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From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.
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Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?
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Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival. ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system exhaust itself. Protest will only raise your blood pressure.
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He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.
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Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch, a man may use instead the ebb and flow of light and dark. Lacking, however, a window through which to see such movement, the reliance must be devolved upon some inner mechanism of the mind. But if the mind has received a shock, the mechanism is disturbed, and time becomes as the ground is to a drunkard, variable.
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A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.
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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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