{"quotes":[{"text":"Often I would hear other people ask, “When will I be normal again?”What you don’t often hear is a blunt truth: things will never be normal again. Not the “old' normal at least. You have to invent the new normal.I knew that I needed to take an honest appraisal of my life. Were my problems really bigger than me? Of course not. That’s why I remained in constant motion. Resistance to life’s changes meant death. No matter how depressing and bleak my past looked, I knew that I needed to keep moving and adapting in order to survive.","author":"Michelle Dallocchio","tags":["change","death","desert","homecoming","military","travel","war"],"id":86,"author_id":"Michelle+Dallocchio"},{"text":"There's nothing gay about living life straight.","author":"Paul B. Tripp","tags":["dadt","gay-and-lesbian","memoir","military","reparative-therapy"],"id":728,"author_id":"Paul+B.+Tripp"},{"text":"War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.","author":"Charles Maurice de Talleyrand","tags":["men","military","serious "],"id":804,"author_id":"Charles+Maurice+de+Talleyrand"},{"text":"We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.","author":"Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus","tags":["training","world","military "],"id":894,"author_id":"Publius+Flavius+Vegetius+Renatus"},{"text":"That’s because it is cruel, Obi-Wan,” Anakin snapped. “Cruel and unfeeling and unworthy of the Jedi Order.” He was so like Qui-Gon. This was like arguing with a ghost.","author":"Karen Miller","tags":["anakin-skywalker","jedi","military","obi-wan-kenobi","qui-gon-jinn","self-hatred","star-wars"],"id":1563,"author_id":"Karen+Miller"},{"text":"...You have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!","author":"Gail Carriger","tags":["men","military","speech","warewolves"],"id":1809,"author_id":"Gail+Carriger"},{"text":"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","capitalism","constitution","democracy","democratic","dictatorship","governance","government","happiness","human","india","inspirational","laws","mankind","military","ministers","motivational","parliament","philosophy","progress","public-sector","slavery","socialism","system","tyranny","wisdom"],"id":2009,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.","author":"Olivia Munn","tags":["car","game","military "],"id":2940,"author_id":"Olivia+Munn"},{"text":"Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.","author":"Viktor Suvorov","tags":["military","soviet-union"],"id":3424,"author_id":"Viktor+Suvorov"},{"text":"There’s nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["military","soldier","uniform"],"id":3871,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":786,"pages":79,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}