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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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"If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding." »Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch
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"Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas." »Charles Fillmore
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"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum." »Thomas Szasz
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"Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil
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"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military." »Georges Clemenceau
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"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music." »Julius Henry Marx
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"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx
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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." »Marechal Ferdinand Foch
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"Love is a kind of military service." »Latin Proverb
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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex." »Oscar Wilde
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"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds." »Rmy de Gourmont
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"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can." »Cullen Hightower
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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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"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them." »Laurence J. Peter
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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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"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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"While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple." »Gerald W. Grummet
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"Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." »Vince Lombardi
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"It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." »Doug Vargas
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"148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)." »Imam Ali, Peak of Eloquence (Nahjul Balagha)
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"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism." »H. P. Lovecraft
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"We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them." »Tsutomu Shimomura
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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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"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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