"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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"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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"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Army, Challenge, Letters, Newspapers

"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."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Army, Liberal

"Military police is very timely for our army."

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Politician

Army, Military, Police

"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

Army,

"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."

Kevin Rollins, American Businessman

Army, Corporations

"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"

Dalton Trumbo, American Novelist

Army,

"We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary."

Jack Lynch, Irish Statesman

Army, Hospitals, May

"I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed."

Eydie Gorme, American Musician

Army, Baby, Traveling

"As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out."

Allen West, American Politician

Army, Challenge, Freedom, Giving

"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."

Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian Politician

Army, Occupations, Years

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"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."

Discipline

"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 you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

Home

"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."

Dream

"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."

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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."

"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."

"Military police is very timely for our army."

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

"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."

"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"

"We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary."

"I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed."

"As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out."

"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."

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"There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones."

"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

"It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid."

"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."

"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."

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

"They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men."

"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."

"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."