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I never thought anyone would pity me because of my time in the Marine Corps.


Phil Klay
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Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.


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Whatever the job is, we can do it. That's why the nation has a Marine Corps.


James F. Amos
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Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.


James F. Amos
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
Leon Uris
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.


Jim Webb
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In the Marine Corps, your buddy is not only your classmate or fellow officer, but he is also the Marine under your command. If you don't prepare yourself to properly train him, lead him, and support him on the battlefield, then you're going to let him down. That is unforgivable in the Marine Corps.
Chesty Puller
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In 2007, I was given the humbling privilege of being made an honorary member of the United States Marine Corps in recognition of my visits to troops during the Iraq War.
Chuck Norris
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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
Adam Driver
My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one's own military legion - in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I've also learned that this loyalty to one's corps travels both ways: up and down.
Chesty Puller
I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'
Adam Driver
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The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other things, they established a long-standing pattern of dealing with foreign policy problems through armed interventions and also inspired the iconic phrase 'the shores of Tripoli' in the Marine Corps hymn.
Nick Turse
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About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.


Tommy Lasorda
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As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Charlie Sheen
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My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.
Paul Theroux
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
Naomi Campbell
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Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them.
Howard Rheingold
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Reading taught me how to write.


Ruth Rendell
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You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.
Dwayne Johnson
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Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children.
Joyce Brothers
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