If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

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In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. -Chesty Puller

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No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for? ― David Gemmell

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I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place. -Maya Angelou

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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

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Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. ― Gregory David Roberts

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. —Jaques Prevert

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What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.- Chesty Puller

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. — Jaques Prevert

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Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

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