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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
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"We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching."
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"I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border."
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"We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers."
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"I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service."
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"Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor."
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"The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?"
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"The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off."
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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."
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"I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any."
Time
"When I grow up I want to be a little boy."
Want
"I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service."
Military
"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry."
Government
"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck."
Destiny
"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
Dream
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
Want
"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
War
"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."
Success
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
Man
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