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"A hospital is no place to be sick." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients." »Oscar Levant
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"One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family." »Robert C. Byrd
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"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind." »Jean Kerr
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"In a way the CID man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives." »Joesph Heller, Catch-22
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"military justice is to justice what military music is to music." »Julius Henry Marx
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"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." »Georges Clemenceau
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"military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx
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"Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb
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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." »Marechal Ferdinand Foch
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"I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro." »Charles De Gaulle
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"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe." »Lord Salisbury
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"My soldiers ask of me, why surrender a military advantage in the field ... I could not answer." »General Douglas MacArthur, His final address to the joint session of the congress
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"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe." »Lord Salisbury
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"If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military." »Harry S. Truman
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"My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso." »Pablo Piccaso
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"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up." »Dean Acheson (1893 - 1971)
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"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu
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"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness)" »Nikita Khrushchev
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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking." »Terry Pratchett, Eric
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"The one bonus of not lifting the ban on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual instead of running off to Canada." » Lorne Bloch
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"He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." »George Washington
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"One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology." »Rebecca West
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"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology." »Rebecca West
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"Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology." »Dame Rebecca West
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