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“In great deeds, something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear, but spirits linger, to consecrate the ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them....”
― Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
― Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
“The battlefields where the dice of world history have been thrown can never be ordinary fields again and no god from a vanished civilization is so dead that he does not live on in his ruined temple.”
― Göran Schildt
― Göran Schildt
“His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans -- and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain, thrills — every emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.”
― Richard Halliburton
― Richard Halliburton
Florida's Beach Book Bums
— 101 members
— last activity Nov 16, 2011 11:08am
For all the Men & Women in Florida that love to read & want to share/swap stories and books.
Q&A with Steven Pressfield
— 65 members
— last activity Jul 17, 2011 06:20am
Steven Pressfield will be available July 7 through July 18, 2008 to answer questions and talk about his new book, Killing Rommel.
Senatus Populus Que Romanus
— 74 members
— last activity Dec 27, 2011 06:18am
"The Senate and the People of Rome". Why not form a group for everyone interested in the Roman Republic/Empire? We can recommend books to ea...more
Military Readers & Writers
— 104 members
— last activity Nov 22, 2011 08:20am
A place to present current and/or future writing projects related to the military or discuss nonfiction books about the military or war.
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