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words being like arrows? Once you shoot them, you can’t take them back. Not from Kenny. Not
“Growing old is a privilege, not a right, Shutter. You learn that quickly here in Nam, and the sooner the better. What
You don’t have time to grow up here. You just grow old from all the fear.
“Never take anything that doesn’t belong to you or that you haven’t earned,” he said, sliding into the car. “You never know who you’re stealing from, and what that money means to them.”
“Dying is hardest on the living.”
“Regret is so much harder to live with than failure,”
“So does that woman. She’ll never flip off another person as long as she lives.”
My country put me in that position. Kill or be killed. Period. But you had a choice,” he said.
I’m not going to pray if you’re not going to listen.
no longer fear death. It no longer scares me. It no longer has power over me. I walk in the valley of death and I fear no evil. Because I am the evil. And that is an omnipotent feeling.
sometimes you just have to live through things to truly understand them. I’d experienced something similar when
Chris will not have died for nothing if you learn just one thing from his death, if you learn that life is fragile at any age, and that every day is a gift. His death won’t be for nothing if you learn
he would become, the type of man he wanted to be, the type of person he wanted to be.
You’ll have to decide if your word stands for something or rings hollow.
Most of all, remember that it takes a lifetime to build a reputation, but only a moment to destroy it.”
You can make your own luck by making smart decisions.”
prophetic,
I’ve come to realize that no situation is hopeless unless we let it be.
ocular albinism.
learn by emulating the men we know. Mostly I emulated
treatises,
