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Ruben Blades

"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."

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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."

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"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."

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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

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"When Arab apologists wring their hands over an Israeli military incursion, they never mention what the Israelis are reacting to, or else diminish and distort it."

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"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."

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"Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996."

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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."

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"We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence."

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"I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President."

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"So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74."
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"I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance."
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"And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez."
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