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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby."
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"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
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"I have always had a particular antagonism for the military."
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"Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues."
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"Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return."
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"From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had."
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"The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale."
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"Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign."
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"Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assassination and ruthlessness and was therefore implicitly distrusted by the Tidhii Mah'k'hai (Naval Command, that is The Queen Of Suth Herself.) He was expected to mete out, in generous portions, brutality to conquered subjects and to act swiftly and mercilessly in dealing with alien encounters. In short, he was expected to be a bad example."
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"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."
Time
"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
Friendship
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."
Food
"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in."
Life
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
Government
"Books are humanity in print."
Books
"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."
Nothing
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
Thought
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."
History
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
History
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