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"The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists."
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"We need a defense budget that's big enough to sustain an increase in the size of the Army."

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

"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."

"Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army."

"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."

"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."

"The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it."

"The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment."

"Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment."

"The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance."

"The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."
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