Mary Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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Quotes by Mary Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
"Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man’s life."
"What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology."
"US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army."