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The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S. Marine Corps came in for a great deal of undeserved criticism in my opinion, from well-meaning persons who did not comprehend the magnitude of stress and horror that combat can be. The technology that developed the rifle barrel, the machine gun and high explosive shells has turned war into prolonged, subhuman slaughter. Men must be trained realistically if they are to survive it without breaking, mentally and physically.


Eugene B. Sledge


#military #okinawa #peleliu #war #wwii

Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up business of dismantling existence instant by instant to the point where the original chaos is restored, and taking strength from the uncertainty and the fear that chaos brings to re-create existence instant by instant. You won't find another job as dangerous as that. There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.


Yukio Mishima


#business

If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn’t the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.


Hugh MacLeod


#creativity #making-money #business

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.


John Green


#humor #thought-provoking #death

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.


Sheryl Sandberg


#inspirational #leadership #lean-in #motivational #risk-taking

You know what they say; if you're tired of London, you're tired of life.


Warren Ellis


#life

Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä]


Väinö Linna


#killing #morality #war #life

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.


Karen Kingsbury


#bull-rider #cf #grief #horses #karen

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.


Faith Ringgold


#away #enjoy #exactly #feel #get

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.


William Bell Riley


#even #james #king #men #never






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