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"I [refill] my pen [with] the blackest [dye], because I'm not afraid of falling into my ink". Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have been gifted with unique abilities, you and I, and our circumstances have called us back into service because only we are able to meet them. – Dan ‘Doc’ Thomas
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“I think you were born for this time and place. You can call it fate or Divine Providence, but you were born for this.
Sometimes I think our lives were predestined to go down a certain path.
Oh, we can choose the good or the bad along the way, but ultimately, perhaps we are predestined for things beyond our control. It is not acurse, but a gift, to be embraced and used in the right way.” - Dan "Doc" Thomas, The Rushing Tide
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Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. ? Dante Alighieri
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. ? Aristotle
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Through the strait pass of suffering—
The Martyrs—even—trod.
Their feet—upon Temptations—
Their faces—upon God—
A stately—shriven—Company—
Convulsion—playing round—
Harmless—as streaks of Meteor—
Upon a Planet's Bond—
Their faith—the everlasting troth—
Their Expectation—fair—
The Needle—to the North Degree—
Wades—so—thro' polar Air!
--Emily Dickinson
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“Law and order is a job for all of us. If we shirk it long enough we will have anarchy, and all we’ve built will be destroyed.” William Blackstone
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"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
? G.K. Chesterton
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With our backs to the wall and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.
-- General Sir Douglas Haig
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.—William Tecumseh Sherman
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Mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.
—Robert E. Howard
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The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.--Sun Tzu?
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." ? Napoleon Bonaparte
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I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.—Sondra Locke?
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By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. --- Benjamin Franklin
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,?but to be fearless in facing them. -- Rabindranath Tagore
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Only the dead are brave. The rest of us do what we must regardless of our fear.
— Doc Thomas
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A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
– Debi Mazar
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A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
– Bob Dylan
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The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
–William Blackstone
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
-- Aristotle
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Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
– Augustine of Hippo
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There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
– William Blackstone
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The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
? Robert A. Heinlein
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Nothing concentrates the military mind so much as the discovery that you have walked into an ambush.
– Thomas Packenham
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Purple Haze all around
Don’t know if I’m coming up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me.
-- Jimi Hendrix
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There can be no prosperity without law and order.
– President Donald Trump
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See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
O, that I were a glove upon that hand
That I might touch that cheek!
? William Shakespeare
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.
--Samuel Johnson
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As George Orwell pointed out, people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
-- Richard Grenier
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