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1 " A zest for living must include a willingness to die. —ROBERT A. HEINLEIN "
― Marc Cameron , State of Emergency (Jericho Quinn #3)
2 " As the Chinese said, dead tigers kill the most hunters. "
3 " The blade must cut, even at its own peril. "
4 " Russian women were masters at wailing— "
5 " on the front of the white marble tomb was the inscription: Here rests in honored glory, an American soldier, known but to God. "
6 " Sometimes bad people were just that: bad people. They might pet a puppy because society expected them to, but in their hearts they wanted to kick it across the room and listen to it yelp. "
7 " If they question why we died, tell them because our fathers lied. . "
8 " naïve notions the Mermaid and Unicorn Fart Theory, explaining to his classes that though they sounded sweet and fantastical, they were every bit as foul smelling as their normal, everyday counterparts. "
9 " Everyone thinks they have a plan until they get punched in the nose. "
10 " Turning on the auto-answer, then deactivating the ringer and vibrate functions transformed an ordinary cell phone into an inconspicuous listening device. "
11 " I just heard some guy say Argentines are a bunch of Italians who speak Spanish but think they’re British living in France. "
12 " Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speedovercomes the fear of death. —HUNTER S. THOMPSON "
13 " In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it. —ERWIN ROMMEL "
14 " The Brits called them SMIDSY accidents—Sorry, mate, I didn’t see you. "
15 " Sometimes bad people were just that: bad people. "
16 " No matter what animal rights activists felt about the practice of “pig lab” training for military corpsmen and combat rescue officers, there was no mannequin or “lifelike” device that came close to working on something that was actually alive. Quivering flesh, the copper scent, and even the slickness of warm blood could be duplicated. But life, that vital essence that made animals different from sugar beets or ears of corn, was inimitable, no matter how sophisticated the tech. "
17 " DETONATION A zest for living must include a willingness to die. —ROBERT A. HEINLEIN "
18 " She reasoned that fate was preordained and, since there was nothing she could do about it anyway, resolved to live moving forward, toward the inevitable, rather than sidestepping through life and hiding from her shadow. "
19 " Protecting a fellow combatant was a noble cause, but before one could protect a friend, he had to stay alive. "
20 " Did the value of a hundred human lives outweigh the worth of one or two? "