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"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."
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"The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange."
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"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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"The Army was my bread and butter."
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"With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army."
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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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"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."
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"As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants."
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"If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army."
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"We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise."
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"I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago."
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"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."
Age
"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."
Army
"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."
Books
"I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?"
Age
"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake."
Art
"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
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"Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948."
Attitude
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