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Quote by Herman Melville
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville

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Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville

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strength
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The only thing thats been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. – Joan Baez

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There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey. – William Edward Forster

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The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. – Jean Cocteau

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Obedience is better than sacrifice. – Bible

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Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength. – Theodor Adorno

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People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. – Donald Knuth

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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. – Graham Greene

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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out. – Dan Farmer

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