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"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."
"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."
"As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants."
"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."
"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."
"But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess."
"The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army."
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"The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice."
"If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works."
"The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves."
"A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief."
"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."
"If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard."
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