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american-soldier behind key played playoff team
I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you. Teemu Selanne
american-soldier information work
But I am satisfied that the information that we have that this is the work of Zarqawi, is accurate. John Abizaid
american-soldier wrote
And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties. James Stockdale
american-soldier cannot duty sublime wish word
Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less. Robert E. Lee
american-soldier brigade far july june man reported tiring
During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none. John Buford
american-soldier avoid behind beyond campaign defensive draw fixed general grant lee line mine occupied open
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. James Longstreet
american-soldier british colony gunpowder island ordered seize
I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines. Abraham Whipple
american-soldier broken changed corps defeat divisions few found hours less plank rallying ten third
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
american-soldier reason whiskey
Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.
mention mere smile smiles
You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men life-is hanging-out
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only. Barbara Jordan
men law finals
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good Baruch Spinoza
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.
men made convenience
True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.
men long impossible
So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
returned safely
that they may be returned to us safely and soon. Al Gore