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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“When you go home
Tell them of us, and say
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today.”
― Patrick O'Donnell, Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat

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