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The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred.

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Karl Marlantes

I mean. . . if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War. ' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

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The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

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This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

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Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

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Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

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