"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."

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"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."

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"It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you."

John Dos Passos, American Novelist

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"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."

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"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

Barry Humphries, Australian Entertainer

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"With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison."

John Spratt, American Politician

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"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."

Bill Mauldin, American Cartoonist

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"There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent."

Daniel H. Hill, American Soldier

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"My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army."

Jimmy Page, British Musician

Army, Building, Guitar, Vocation

"If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army."

Casey Stengel, American Athlete

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"I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen."

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Gloria Swanson, American Actress

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"It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you."

"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."

"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

"With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison."

"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."

"There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent."

"My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army."

"If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army."

"I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen."

"We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise."

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"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

"I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles."

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt."

"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."

"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."

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