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Karl Marlantes Quotes

'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 24, 1944

Topics

War Lost Vietnam War Abandoned Again

I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.

I Am Voice Innocent Animals Being

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

Change Time Thought Feel Go Roof

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Forgiveness Courage Stand Up Stand

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

Change Process Reality Things Must

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

Style Best You Look Place Healthy

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in Congress. He passed for white, then became a black advocate.

Ron Cephas Jones

Character Intelligence Black White

I don't necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door.

Myself Door Down Street See Every

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

Michael N. Castle

Family Education Decision College Go

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

Love Best Me Mom Unconditional Love

Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet.

Dennis Haysbert

Mom Security Meet Guard Housewife

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

Service Product First Amendment Been

It's all about tuning out the noise, tuning out all the stuff that simply doesn't move the game forward - the doubt, the personal agendas, the often deafening fear of judgment and the need to please - so that you can ultimately get to that place of quiet, of calm, where you can focus on what really matters.

Fear Focus Calm Game Forward You

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