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We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.

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William Manchester

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

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Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

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A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

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Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

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