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I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

— Bill Mauldin Up Front (1945)

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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

The Brass Ring (1971)

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

No normal man who has smelled and associated with death ever wants to see any more of it.

Up Front (1945)

If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

The Brass Ring (1971)

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

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