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While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.

— 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)

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

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