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Sitting here on staff duty, bored out of my mind. I have plenty of books here I keep meaning to read but I guess I'm saving them for later... or I'm worried that reading might kick in the drowsy mode, and I have many, many hours left in this shift ( Read more... ) -
quote - a sort of comedy
"Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?"
- Erasmus
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quote - antithesis of the warrior's spirit
"The soldier, like any other agent at the service of totalitarian powers, is the antithesis of the Warrior's spirit. The Warrior eats up an army for breakfast because the Warrior is an individual, whereas the army is made up of numbers and "yes sir" whose character and individuality are repressed by the necessity to subordinate to the military ( Read more... ) -
"will you be ready"
Shiwaja shiwaja itokuri shiwaja yoi
An eye for an eye, will only make this world go blind
Another lie for a lie, we'll be wiping out mankind
Will you be ready?
Ennuo kiriri musu ranoya
Will you be ready?
Ahuu yuu uri yoi
Itoya kiririba musubimo na ryu uri yoiCan we let the sun still shine ( Read more... ) -
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"inflexibility kills the hero every time"
People who live by an incorruptible code do not survive in the real world. To survive, one has to be able to change, to adapt. Honor as an ideal allows no adaptation. It is do or do not. That inflexibility kills the hero every time.
- Annie Buhl
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"knight in blood-caked armor"
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
- Frank Miller
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"welcome to the infantry"
Welcome to the infantry. It sucks, and we hate it, but we endure it for two reasons. First, there is nobility and purpose in our lives. We are America's warrior class. We protect; we avenge. Second, every moment in the infantry is a test. If we measure up to the worst days, it proves we stand a breed apart from all other men ( Read more... ) -
"a beast, an angel, and a madman"
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my inquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
- Dylan Thomas
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"travel on that furious path to hell"
"The Soldier ( Read more... )