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• What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.

  Mark Steyn

  Fighting, Men, Texas

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• No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

  Colin Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Mysteries". Book by Colin Wilson, 1978.

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• Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.

  Ian Bogost

  Kids, Play, Clothes

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Fate has terrible power. You cannot escape it by wealth or war. No fort will keep it out, no ships outrun it.

  Sophocles

  War, Fate, Ships

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.56, University of Chicago Press

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• It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Snow

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• A ship's a fool to fight a fort.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Fighting, Ships

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• Forte is French… for blanket fort.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Blanket, Forte

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• To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Sin, Made, Strongest

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• You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

  Deb Caletti

  Wall, Islands, Tree

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• We built your fort. We will not have it used against us.

  John Wayne

  Revolution, Used, Built

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• For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Two, Mute

  Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.100, Open Road Media

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• People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.

  Charles Portis

  Girl, Horse, Father

  "True Grit". Book by Charles Portis, Chapter 1 (p. 9), 1968.

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• These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.

  Barack Obama

  Pain, Grief, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The bathrooms - that usually would be a porta-potty - were wrapped in a fabric that was neutral to match the fort ... the same materials that were used to cover the bathroom, we said, 'Let's just use that [to cover a bar at the reception], because this is all we have to make the bar look better.' Which it did, in the end.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, Would Be, Bars

  "Kanye West: A Brand-New Ye". Interview with Zach Baron, www.gq.com. July 20, 2014.

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• Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

  Hedda Hopper

  Kings, Gold, Towns

  Hedda Hopper (1963). “the Whole Truth and Nothing But”

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• See you in a few. Hold down the fort, Mr. Wong!

  Darynda Jones

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.52, Macmillan

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• This tree house became our galleon, our spaceship, our Fort Apache...Ours was a learning tree. Through it we learned to trust ourselves and our abilities.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, House, Tree

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• Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Passion, Men, Mind

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1956). “Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marine, Men, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every friend at the North. You will wantonly strike a hornet's nest which extends from mountains to ocean. Legions now quiet will swarm out and sting us to death. It is unnecessary. It puts us in the wrong. It is fatal.

  Robert Toombs

  War, Ocean, Mountain

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• If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Rare Beauty, Views, Valleys

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• Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Ignorance, Mean

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

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• Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Couple, Attitude, Sea

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• So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache, from Sheridan to Stark. They were all the same. Men in dirty-shirt blue and only a cold page in the history books to mark their passing. But wherever they rode and whatever they fought for, that place became the United States.

  Frank Nugent

  Dog, Dirty, Book

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• I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

  Charlie Worsham

  Needs, Four, Sides

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