"Also, to Uncle, wouldnt you want to light, THEN ring? You dont want to ring and have them see you lighting it now do you?"
it was all in the timing...they didn't get to the doorbell right away, and we didn't want to take a chance on it extinguishing before whoever got his/her feet in it...
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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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