"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea."

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"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea."

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"Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II."

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"I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist."

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"I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist."

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"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war."

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"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."

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"We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so."

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"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned."

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"But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born."

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"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."

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"He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly."

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"Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."

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"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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"Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things."

Georges Bataille, French Writer

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"They paid the ultimate price and we can never forget their sacrifice."

Robert A. Brady, American Politician

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"Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe."

Thomas Carper, American Economist

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"Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze."

Aime Cesaire, French Poet

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