"To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians."

-- David Galula

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“We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.11, Harvard University Press
“And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.”
“People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We have so much patience with ourselves, why not borrow some of that and use it on others.”
“I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.”
“I think every job that I've done to this point has had something new to challenge me.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.”

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