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"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
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"We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army."
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"I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it."
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"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."
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"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."
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"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man."
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"Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army."
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"Never try to take a fortified hill, especially if the Army on top is bigger than you are."
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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."
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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."
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"Bring the army of the faithful through."
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Explore more quotes by James A. Michener
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
Character
"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."
Creativity
"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."
Confidence
"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."
Army
"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."
Courage
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."
Career
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
Life
"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."
Dream
"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."
Man
"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
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