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title: "2 Knowing Soldier Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dick-cavett/coming-up-through-the-ranks-of-any-calling-can-be-rough-but-that/)

[Dick Cavett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dick-cavett/)

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> [“so we were playing all this game then and thinking that to be a soldier was to be the best thing in the world because gun is looking so powerful and the men in movie are looking so powerful and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/uzodinma-iweala/so-we-were-playing-all-this-game-then-and-thinking-that-to-be-a/)

[Uzodinma Iweala](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/uzodinma-iweala/)

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