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Damaged goods Quote by Jim Mattis

“I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don't buy it.” quote by Jim Mattis — Download Open image

“I would just say there is one misperception of our veterans, and that is they are somehow damaged goods. I don't buy it.”

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The Corps is in good hands, and it's been a privilege to serve with the Leathernecks. Now it's time to go.

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Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

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It's not an easy course. It's not designed to be. We're not here to get you in touch with your inner child.

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You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like…

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“I have more baggage than baggage claim. I'm damaged goods. I'm not good at...” she released him for a moment and fingered between the two of them “this.” “Well, I think you're dancing just fine, Miss Gerhart.” he smirked. He knew that was not what she meant, but he had hoped to lighten their mood. Maybe if he could get…

“As specimens go, they always get excited about me. I'm a good one. A show-stopper. I'm the kind of kid they'll still enquire about ten years later. Fifty-one placements, drug problems, violence, dead adopted mum, no biological links, constant offending. Tick, tick, tick. I lure them in to being with. Cultivate my specimen face. They like that. Do-gooders are vomit-worthy.…

“Don’t play with damaged goods, you will only hurt yourself.”

Osayi Osar-Emokpae

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Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about…

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“We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged.”

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The bodies lay on the ground like damaged goods from a warehouse.

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Those damaged goods you see In your reflection Love sees them differently Love sees perfection A beautiful display Of healing on the way tonight

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“Perhaps I won’t tire of her,” Gray protested, just to be contrary. Because, apparently, that was how brothers behaved. “Perhaps a dolphin will fly out of your arse. And here’s an argument even you can’t refuse. Grayson Shipping doesn’t need a reputation for delivering damaged goods. You want me to hand George Waltham an impregnated governess?” “I wouldn’t get her…

The Real You isn't damaged goods. The Real You is the light of the universe.

Marianne Williamson

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I don't think we can reduce the prison population now, so many of these people are damaged goods once they've spent much time in…

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We are all damaged goods in recovery.

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