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"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated."

"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."

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

"I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country."

"A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man."

"Those who served, and those who continue to serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard took an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, and we can never forget the importance of their commitment to our Nation."

"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."

"But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done over by the Army after it had already been done by the Air Corps, a mess."

"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."
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"We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar."

"You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against."

"How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?"

"I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more."

"We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else."

"I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it."

"The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team."
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