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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."

"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."

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"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."

"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"
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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

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"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"

"He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense."
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