Eric Blehm Quotes

#1. guess it's like driving a car, you gotta watch out for the other guy! I

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#2. Wilderness An area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. - Howard Zahniser Perhaps

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#3. His supervisor, a well-liked ranger by the name of Dick McLaren, gave Randy a line of advice to which he would adhere for the rest of his career: 'The best way to teach the public isn't with a citation, it's with communication.

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#4. You gotta do what you gotta do, and when you're done, you'll be stronger.

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#5. Randy had even told the younger ranger, 'There's nothing s season in the backcountry can't cure.

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#6. just programmed into the bomb's guidance system. "Hey!" the copilot told the Delta operator. "We don't

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#7. Maybe you bought this book because you love Sarah Palin and you want to find reasons to hate me. We've got that! I use all kinds of elitist words like "impervious" and "torpor," and I think gay people are just as good at watching their kids play hockey as straight people. Maybe

Tina Fey

#8. villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.

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#9. British General Andrew Skeen, who faced a similar military mission in 1939, wrote, "When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.

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#10. There's a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent.

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#11. When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

Stephen Mitchell

#12. We were born from their dreams, their fears and imaginations. We are the product of their hearts and minds. Without a soul we are immortal, yet empty. Remembered, we exist. Forgotten, we die. And when we die, we simply fade away, as if we never existed at all.

Julie Kagawa

#13. And so the moral of his fabled travels read like Santiago's, the boy in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: Randy had traveled around the world in search of treasure and came home to find it in his own backyard. He

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#14. Other than hunting down the terrorists responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001, Amerine suspected that the United States had no comprehensive plan, military or otherwise.

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#15. My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

Bruce Forsyth

#16. An inflexible tree breaks in a storm.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Our lives are not good - it is not the Afghanistan we remember - but it is still life.

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#18. and following your ideals is the only thing worth dying for.

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#19. We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower.

Buck Owens

#20. And he always stood up for the underdog--never realizing that because of his size he was one himself.

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#21. Not that Bella wasn't pretty. Grace thought she was. But she wasn't thin.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#22. The least I owe these mountains is a body. - Randy Morgenson

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#23. When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

Kevin Roose

#24. Don't ever put your life on the line for something you don't believe in.

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#25. Back in civilization I begin the questioning," wrote Randy. "What to do with life? What kind of life? In wilderness this ceases; the questions aren't answered, they dissolve." BEFORE

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#26. In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and music are from and to the human heart, as is, for many, our relationship with the land.' ~ Randy Morgenson

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#27. others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did then when I was there on my second visit,

James D. Tabor

#28. Tender Warrior," Adam replied and showed John the cover. "You can read it; I'm almost done. Check this out," he said, thumbing backward through the pages. "It was written by Stu Weber, a Vietnam veteran, Special Forces. He became a chaplain.

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#29. But pieces of paper do not stop bullets and rockets. Paper promises that fall from the sky cannot be trusted.

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#30. It's a fucked-up war when you are more worried about fighting your chain of command than the actual enemy.

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