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"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
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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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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them."
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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
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"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."
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"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."
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"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."
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"I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed."
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"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
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"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."
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"What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?"
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"Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children."
Family
"In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society."
Society
"My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me."
Family
"I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man."
Man
"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
Knowledge
"Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century."
Life
"Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could."
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"I have been driven demented in my career."
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"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life."
Life
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