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For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

-Thomas Jefferson

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For Themselves They Fought, For Themselves They

Thomas Jefferson

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

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The war is not going well and it is time to say why. it has been fought with half-measures. it has been fought with an eye on the wishes of our "coalition partners." it has been fought to assuage the arab "street." it has been fought to satisfy the diplomats rather than the generals... why have we not loosed the b-52s and the b-2s to carpet-bomb taliban positions? and why are we giving the taliban sanctuary in their cities? we could drop leaflets giving civilians 48 hours to evacuate, after which the cities become legitimate military targets.

We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "civil war," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought socs and we fought other grease gangs. it was a normal childhood.

Men had always told kaladin that he fought like nobody else. he’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. kaladin had cared when he fought. he’d never fought empty or cold. he fought to keep his men alive

This book was not written because i wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; i wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and temptation was defeated. christ died on the cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.

I don't know if anyone has noticed but i only ever write about one thing: being alone. the fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. the need to hear the words: you are not alone.

I have fought against spending. i have fought against special interests. i have fought for reform.

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I was confident that i was a special person. but time slowly chips away at life. people don't just die when their time comes. they gradually die away, from the inside. and finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. nobody can escape it. people have to pay the price for what they've received. i have only just learned that truth.

We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. that no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. for the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. it's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect.

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