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Michael Herr3 quotes
There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much." — Michael Herr · 1977Out on the street I couldn't tell the Vietnam veterans from the rock and roll veterans. The Sixties had made so many casualties, its war and its music had run power off the same circuit for so long they didn't even have to fuse. — Michael Herr · 1977I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. — Michael Herr · 1977Archimedes2 quotes
Eureka! — Archimedes · 212 BCGive me but one firm spot on which to stand and I will move the earth. — Archimedes · 212 BCJohn Keith Laumer1 quote
Only a free society... Can produce the technology that makes tyranny possible. — John Keith Laumer · 1967