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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."

"The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply."

"So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before."

"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."

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."

"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."

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

"We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater."
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"I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio."

"If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s."

"If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination."

"Going to Nashville to meet the in-laws was the first time when I'd been in America and not been seen as some sort of eccentric character with a cute accent."

"As long as my body holds out, I'll be grooving when I'm 70, and not some sort of horrible spectacle."

"They tell me I produced songs. I just stood in the back, wore a good suit and said, Yeah, that's happening."

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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