- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soldier Quotes
On duty, calling, and the people who answer it.
Being a soldier runs through these quotes as both a family inheritance and a personal calling, alongside lines about quieter forms of service that never happen on a battlefield. One speaker even extends the word to describe a spouse's daily resilience. Related: Duty quotes.
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
- Cargo
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020