I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people … - Ed Koch

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If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?

Ed Koch

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.

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Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

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Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

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People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.

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Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.

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