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Originally Posted by Redjake
I can't think of a more epic book than Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. one of the best books ever written and truly grandiose in every aspect.
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don't forget the fountainhead...
also, the iliad and the odyssey were a couple of greek epics, as was the roman aenead...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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