"I think I may try and write something……" — Rick Atkinson
"I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq."
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13 Quotes by Rick Atkinson
Rick Atkinson has 13 quotes on this site.
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I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life,…
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In battle, topography is fate.
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There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to…
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I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as…
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In searching for a rationale to go to war, Bush settled on the notion of Saddam as an incarnation of…
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American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation…
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The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done…
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Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and…
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Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.
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The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given…
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The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in…
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Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison…
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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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