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"My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
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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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"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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"And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier's stress levels to see how they're doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program."
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"When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes."
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"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."
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"I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too."
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"Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine."
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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
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"I have always had a particular antagonism for the military."
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"My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well."
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"This is the war I fear."
War
"I have been driven demented in my career."
Career
"I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time."
Time
"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
Knowledge
"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions."
Confidence
"I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled."
Sea
"Here I am in my first command - a bit dazed but feeling very grand."
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"I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity."
Humility
"It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability."
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