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It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to 'human materiel'.

Albert Einstein
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Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.

Thomas Stonewall Jackson
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My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. -Roseanne Barr
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

Barbara W. Tuchman
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I've always had the idea that we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency.

Lincoln Kirstein
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Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen. -William Henry Hudson
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Daniel Defoe
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Barbara W. Tuchman
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Military men are the scourges of the world. -Guy De Maupassant
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And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye.

General Douglas MacArthur
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My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer.

General Douglas MacArthur
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It appears that the President is included in the (assassination) attempt. Part of the plan is the attack on the Philippine Military Academy in February during the homecoming. -Tristan Kison
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REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.

Ambrose Bierce
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It's always great to play for the military. Military members and their families have done so much for our country. It's always nice to give back to them any way we can.

Todd Hill
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And there is no way anyone could, even if the military was twice as conscientious. It is unknowable, unless you assume that every act of abuse is immediately reported up the chain of command. -Tom Malinowski
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If the involved service members are found guilty of misconduct, they will be punished according to U.S. military law.

Jason Kamiya
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He is highly unpopular, ... because people in our country blame the military for destabilizing civilian government.

Benazir Bhutto
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About an actress who hits rock bottom and ends up in the military reserves. -Bill Gerber
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If you really want to do something about this, then change the system that allowed me to, with a few selected donations, attract the interest of the head of Chinese military intelligence.

Johnny Chung
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We ... believe that a military solution to Sri Lanka is not possible ... We are supportive of the Norwegian initiative.

Thomas Pickering
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She will keep the military option open because, given the track record of the LTTE, ... she cannot afford to lower her guard. -Jehan Perera
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The play was written before a lot of things that have informed how we feel about the military, but I think it is going to resonate.

Aaron Sorkin
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Even if there was no war, I wouldn't be interested in the military.

Alex Woods
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Actually, there are a lot of different small accessories and they can all be sort of assembled on one belt. But (they're) very, very feminine. There's nothing military about them. -Marc Jacobs
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The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

Hyman George Rickover
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This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

Lawrence Korb
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War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. -George Clemenceau
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With the military, you make really very good friends and you have them for a very long time. That's my support.

Felecia Chavez
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All the documents possessed by the different (Iranian) organs show the intervention and cooperation of British military commanders in southern Iraq to create insecurity in Iran.

Manuchehr Mottaki
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Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force. -Lord North
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