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"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

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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

Richard Harding Davis, American Journalist

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"The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season."

Martin Van Buren, American President

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"We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe."

Jack Reed, American Politician

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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."

Gustav Stresemann, German Politician

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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."

Barry Humphries, Australian Entertainer

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"Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive."

Wendell Mayes, American Screenwriter

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"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

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"The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange."

Desi Arnaz, American Actor

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"I owe everything to the army."

Norman Wisdom, English Comedian

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"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."

Stress

"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."

Life

"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."

Business

"Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work."

Work

"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."

Movies

"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."

Reading

"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."

Creativity

"There are lots of other things that I haven't done, places I haven't seen. So eventually I'll have to find time for those things while there still is time."

Time

"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him."

God

"And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it."

Fortune