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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ↗

#definition #liberate #poets #possession #soldiers

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. ↗

#good soldier #however #outstanding #qualities #recognized

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#blow #brains #come #cut #go

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#anything #business #cares #collection #except

The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#african #congress #could #going #i

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#blood #bodies #go #got #had

When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#ever #freshman #game #i #oklahoma

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#being #conducted #confident #ever #guantanamo

I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#editors #guess #i #king #like

I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of cake and it really wasn't. I have drawers full of - or I did have - drawers full of rejection slips. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#cake #did #drawers #full #going