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


Adam Driver
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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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The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.


Karl Marlantes
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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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Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.


James F. Amos
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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
Tags: War Being Made
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
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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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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I worked in videogames for 16 years before writing my first book in 2009.


Margaret Stohl
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I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.


David Sedaris
Tags: Out First Years
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R. A. Salvatore
Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
Michael Winter
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
Karen Joy Fowler
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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
Nora Roberts
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Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.


Thomas Sydenham
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I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
James Rollins
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