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No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong.
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A Gay VietnamVeteranThey gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.


— Tombstone inscription. Quoted in the Washington Post, 22  Apr 1988.

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What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

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— Chapter 4 “Washington” (p. 110)

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What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.

Pietro Aretino

— Edward Hutton (1922) Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes. p. 65

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I don't know what you think you're trying to do, but the krauts ought to pin a medal on you for helping them mess up discipline for us.

george s. patton

— During a March 1945 meeting with Bill Mauldin, complaining about his "Willy and Joe" cartoons; as quoted in The Brass Ring (1971) by Bill Mauldin

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.

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— United States Congress, "Act Awarding Leo Ryan Congressional Gold Medal" (18 November 1983), H.R. 3348 Public Law 98 - 159

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Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die! Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel, The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, Stanza 7.

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No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong.


— What Maisie Knew

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On the July 12, 2005, edition of Fox News's The Big Story, host John Gibson said that White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove should be given "a medal" for outing covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, adding that Plame "should have been outed by somebody."

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— Fox's Gibson: Rove deserves "a medal ... Because Valerie Plame should have been outed by somebody"

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