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1 " This place is so small you have to go outside to change your mind. "
― Nelson DeMille , Word of Honor
2 " concurring.’ But now we know what I suspected. Two people on the board voted for acquittal, which means there are "
3 " of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently "
4 " arms, and the other pulled the camera from "
5 " back up his story? He didn’t give Picard any other names. Only Farley.” Tyson shook his head. “Maybe Farley was the only one whose whereabouts he knew. Maybe they kept up their wartime acquaintance.” “A medical doctor and a strung-out paraplegic junkie? I doubt that. Were they good friends over there?” “Not that I recall.” Corva sat. “This is like pulling teeth. You are not going to tell me what motivates Brandt and Farley, though I think you know.” “Maybe later, Vince, if it gets down to that.” Corva snapped his briefcase shut. “Okay. So Friday it will be you and I and Colonel "
6 " The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes Duty—Honor—Country. Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. I bid you farewell. "
7 " people firing rifles with live ammunition at me. Do you know what I did? I laughed. It was too ludicrous. "
8 " Neither a fortress nor a virgin will hold out long after they begin to negotiate. "
