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I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. ↗

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ↗

— Hu Shih

#border #centuries #china #conquered #culturally

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#bands #biggest #every #get #guy

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#exploited #function #goods #household #how

I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums. ↗

— Ricky Skaggs

#hate #i #matter #million #more

The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#citizen #discipline #feel #first #formed

The photograph, the clothes, the sets - this was about 1974, and I started hanging out with my friend Richard Sold, who was playing in a band with Patti Smith. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#band #clothes #friend #hanging #i

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#best #gets #his #lord #out

I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you don't wake up forever. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#war #dreams

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#army #arranged #carefully #country #everybody