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"I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq." »Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
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"The World's most powerful army is the army of Medicine, as it is fighting against a real enemy, the most powerful one: The Death!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." »Arab Proverb
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"You go to war with the army you have. They're not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." »Donald Rumsfeld, http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2004/tr20041208-secdef1761.html
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"How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks." »Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
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"Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias." »Bertrand Russell
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"The irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another" »Samuel Johnson
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"The irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another." »Samuel Johnson
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"If it was raining soup, the irish would go out with forks." »Brendan Behan
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"I am more afriad of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep." »Tallyrand
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"God invented whiskey to keep the irish from ruling the world." »Ed McMahon
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"Other people have a nationality. The irish and the Jews have a psychosis." »Brendan Behan
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"Between Napoleon and his army, always choose Napoleon; because He can create another army, but his army cannot create a Napoleon!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Being irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." »W. B. Yeats
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"I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army." »Julius Caesar, (attributed)
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"If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life." »Eric Hoffer
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"I am not part of the problem. I am a republican." »Dan Quayle
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"The father is always a republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat." »Robert Frost
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"Brains, you know, are suspect in the republican Party." »Irving Layton
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"I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'" »Anthony Lake
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a republican." »H. L. Mencken
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"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a republican wants." »Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)
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"In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a republican." »H. L. Mencken
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"Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word 'Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio." »Frank Luntz
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"Of ex-President Eisenhower at the republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery." »Gore Vidal
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"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity." »George Frost Kennan
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"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior." »Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
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