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Ted Williams

Theodore Samuel Williams (30 August 1918 – 5 July 2002) was a Major League Baseball player; he spent 19 seasons with the Boston Red Sox.

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 * Hmmm... wait until Foxx sees me hit.
 * Responding, circa spring 1938, to a veteran sportswriter's admonition to "Wait until you see Jimmy Foxx hit;" as quoted in "Fenwayite Should Dominate Picture for Many Years to Come" by, in The Boston Globe (August 18, 1946), p. C33

 * I sure have. I'd like to break every hitting record in the books. When I walk down the street, I'd like for them to say, "There goes Ted Williams, the best hitter in baseball."
 * Responding to question posed by UP's George Kirksey, as to whether Williams had any desire to break Joe DiMaggio's newly set consecutive game hitting record; as quoted in "Ace Ted Williams is 'Bughouse on Basehits'; Red Sox Fielder Would Rather Hit than Eat" by Kirksey, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 4 1941), p. 19

 * Gee, I wish I could play here just one season just to see what I could do.
 * Discussing, as quoted in "Ace Ted Williams is 'Bughouse on Basehits'"

 * You know why that's my favorite hit? Well, they say that the only other two players who ever hit one over there were Ruth and Gehrig. But now they have to say "only Ruth, Gehrig and Williams ever hit one over there.' Yes sir, that's putting the old string bean in some pretty fast company when they say that.
 * Discussing his 11th-inning home run of May 7, 1941, that cleared 's right field roof; as quoted in "Ace Ted Williams is 'Bughouse on Basehits'"

 * If I'm gonna be a champion, I want to win as a champion. I'm staying in to the end.
 * On his decision to override manager 's decision to sit him on Sunday, September 28, 1941, the final day of the season, in order to protect Williams' .400 average; as quoted in "Ted Williams Discusses Hitting and Ted Williams" by Arthur Daley, in The New York Times (August 18, 1947)

 * The unbelievable part about the Babe, of course, was that he hit only 34 homers in the first two-thirds of the season and then smacked 26 homers in the final third. Wow! What a way to finish!
 * On Ruth's record-breaking 1927 season; as quoted in "Ted Williams Discusses Hitting and Ted Williams" by Arthur Daley, in The New York Times (August 18, 1947)

 * Why do they cheer me for hitting a homer and then boo me for grounding out the next time up. I'm still the same guy, ain't I? They can all go to hell. I'll never tip my cap to them.
 * As quoted in "Black Hills Sport Scene" by Jack Cannon, in The Deadwood Pioneer-Times (April 7, 1950), p. 2

 * Batting coaches are just as important as pitching coaches. Lefty O'Doul gave me good advice when he said: "Don't ever let them change you." I also asked for help from Cobb, Foxx and Hornsby.
 * As quoted in "Here's the Pitch" by Frank Finch, in The Los Angeles Times (June 5, 1958), p. C2

 * A man has to have goals — for a day, for a lifetime — and that was mine, to have people say, "There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived."
 * My Turn at Bat : The Story of My Life (1970), p. 7
 * Variant: All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived".

 * Any pitcher throwing sinkers and hard sliders.
 * Responding to the question, "Who was the toughest pitcher you faced during your career, and why was he a special problem for you?"; as quoted in "Hall of Famers Name Their Toughest Diamond Foes" by William Guilfoile, in The 1991 National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Yearbook; reprinted in Baseball Digest (August 1992), p. 28

 * A kid copies what is good. I remember the first time I saw Lefty O'Doul, and he was as far away as those palms. And I saw the guy come to bat in batting practice. I was looking through a knothole, and I said, "Geez, does that guy look good!" And it was Lefty O'Doul, one of the greatest hitters ever.
 * The Sporting News (1994)

 * If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
 * As quoted in The Gigantic Book of Baseball Quotations (2007) edited by Wayne Stewart, p. 360

 * I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
 * As quoted in "The Braves' Chipper Jones carries weight of .400" in ''The Los Angeles Times (13 June 2008)

Quotes about Ted Williams

 * Williams is one batter I thought would break my lifetime batting average of .367. If he'd learned to hit to left, Ted would have broken every record in the book.
 * Ty Cobb, as quoted in "Here's the Pitch" by Frank Finch, in The Los Angeles Times (June 5, 1958), p. C2

 * If he'd tip his cap just once, he could be elected mayor of Boston in five minutes. I don't think he will ever do it.
 * , as quoted in "Black Hills Sports Scene" by Jack Cannon, in The Deadwood Pioneer-Times (April 7, 1950), p. 2

 * For my money, Ted Williams is the greatest hitter of all-time. I'd take him over Ruth, I'd take him over Cobb. I'd take him over Cobb because of the combination of power and average. I'd take him over Ruth because with Ruth, you can only speculate about what he would have done in the modern era. Ted Williams hit .388 at the age of 39 in 1957. He was what few of us ever become; he was exactly what he set out to be. He said he wanted to be able to walk down the street some day and have people say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived". And if they don't say that, it's only because they don't know what they're talking about.
 * Bob Costas, documentary in Baseball (1994) by Ken Burns

 * If we were choosing sides and every player was in the pool my first pick would be Whitey Ford and my second would be Ted Williams. Beyond that there would be just too many and I would be afraid of leaving somebody out. Besides, with Whitey on the mound and Williams in the lineup, the rest of the team wouldn't much matter; we'd still beat just about anybody.
 * Mickey Mantle, as quoted in The Greatest Team of All Time: As Selected by Baseball's Immortals, from Ty Cobb to Willie Mays (1994), compiled by Nicholas Acoccella and Donald Dewey, p. 120

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Oil

An  is any nonpolar that is a viscous  at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (immiscible with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (miscible with other oils, literally "fat loving"). Oils have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are usually flammable and surface active.

Oil, generally

 * We’re calling it a ready and release plan. This allows us to move quickly to prevent oil price spikes and respond to international events
 * President Biden U.S. sells oil reserves as Biden tackles pump prices ahead of elections (4 minute readOctober 19, 20226:08 PM PDTLast Updated 17 days ago)

 * Sweet oil, the fragrance of the gods, mixed oil, pressed oil, aromatic oil, cedar oil for offerings are mine.
 * Lahar, in Debate between sheep and grain (mid to late 3rd millennium BCE)

 * Enki sets up for you the lustration rituals created in his abzu; Kusu establishes the lustration rituals created in their specific house -- the oven for oxen, sheep and bread beside the interior of the bathing chamber, those sacred lustration rituals beside the shrine! Kusu purifies the oil for the house. It is placed in readiness [...] to ensure the sacred lustration rituals are not neglected, from the majestic marshes, the vast, sacred bathing chamber, this destiny emerges: the E-kic-nu-jal, with its majestic, sacred dais, perfects the great, majestic divine powers of heaven and earth. You bathe on the majestic banks by the sacred bathing chamber; you put mountain oil on your sacred body; O Nanna, you are placed upon your majestic dais -- wrapped in majestic linen, with raised head, shining horns and the pectoral of lordship!  With the majestic oil of the sacred body, the oil of lordship, oil from your great treasury, lord Ningublaga consecrates the hands on his lapis-lazuli quay, the majestic quay, the sacred quay. But from Eridug the stag of the abzu Enki purifies the oil for those hands. So that you should place sacred hands upon your offering table in the banqueting hall, the great place, your steward Kusu -- she who purifies hands and cleanses hands -- consecrates the hands. But from Eridug the stag of the abzu purifies the oil for those hands.
 * About Nanna, A hymn to Nanna (Nanna E), anonymous author, late, at.

 * [the blockade puts emergency access at risk for more than 500 workers, and threatens] good faith commitments made between the Office of the Wet’suwet’en and the Province of B.C. to develop a new relationship based on respect
 * Mike Farnworth B.C. public safety minister condemns blockade at Coastal GasLink pipeline site (Nov. 16, 2021 or February 5, 2018? see image at beginning of article)

 * With the continued deterioration of weather conditions in the region in the coming days, Trans Mountain is closely monitoring the situation to ensure our crews can continue to progress safely
 * Trans Mountain Corp Intense weather heads for B.C., slows pipeline restart as prime minister to visit (November 26, 2021)

 * "Anybody who follows the oil industry will tell you that it doesn't make any difference where the oil comes from," says Keith Crane, an energy expert at RAND Corp. Global oil markets are so intertwined, Crane says, that changes in any one part of the system can trigger effects elsewhere. He points out that the U.S. has imposed sanctions on Iran and therefore does not import its oil. But "if Iranian oil goes off the [world] market, it still affects the price in the United States," Crane says.
 * Corey Flintoff, “Where Does America Get Oil? You May Be Surprised”, NPR, (April 12, 2012).

 * To ask the question "What is oil?" is almost like asking "What is love?"
 * John Gunther, Inside U.S.A. (1947), page 57.
 * What he has said is we'll continue to rely on Persian Gulf oil and if necessary sacrifice American lives in a fight for that oil. I don't think we ought to lose American lives fighting for someone else's oil. Because a war in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf - all we'll get is war and we won't get oil. And we'll lose a lot of American lives in the process.
 * Gary Hart, Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Columbia University in New York City, (28 March 1984)

 * The world petroleum story is one of the most inhuman known to man: in it, elementary moral and social principles are jeered at. If powerful oil trusts no longer despoil and humiliate our country it is not because these predators have become human, but because we have won a hard-fought battle which has been going on since the beginning of the century.
 * Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, The Shah's Story (1980), page 59.
 * Our oil supply is secure, not because our government threatens to use force against those who would make it insecure, but because the world’s oil suppliers want to make money.
 * David R. Henderson, as quoted in Handbook of Oil Politics, edit. Robert E. Looney, Routledge, Chap. 11 “Do Governments need to Go to War for Oil?” (2012) p. 144.

 * I think Arctic drilling is insane. I think that countries around the world would be very well advised to put restrictions on drilling for oil in the Arctic ocean.
 * Al Gore, as quoted in the Guardian in 16 July 2015.

 * As one approaches nearer to the country of the Cats, one finds heavy and thick water, which ignites like brandy, and boils up in bubbles of flame when fire is applied to it. It is, moreover, so oily, that all our Savages use it to anoint and grease their heads and their bodies.
 * The Jesuit Relations of 1657 edited by Le Jeune, as qtd. in Old Frontier of France: The Niagara Region and Adjacent Lakes Under French Control Volume 1”, by Frank Hayward Severance, (1917), p. 294.

 * The place where we meet with it is called Ganos; where an officer worthy of credit [Joncaire] assured me that he had seen a fountain, the water of which is like oil and has the taste of iron. He said also that a little further there is another fountain exactly like it, and that the savages make use of its waters to appease all manner of pains.
 * Chabert Joncaire, as qtd in Old Frontier of France: The Niagara Region and Adjacent Lakes Under French Control Volume 1”, by Frank Hayward Severance, (1917), p. 294.

 * In 1991, Landsat captured the devastating environmental consequences of war. As Iraqi forces withdrew from Kuwait, they set fire to over 650 oil wells and damaged almost 75 more, which then spewed crude oil across the desert and into the Persian Gulf. Fires burned for ten months. According to a 2009 study published in Disaster Prevention and Management, firefighting crews from ten countries, part of a response team that comprised approximately 11,450 workers from 38 countries, used familiar and also never-before-tested technologies to put out the fires. When the last one was extinguished in November, about 300 lakes of oil remained, as well as a layer of soot and oil that fell out of the sky and mixed with sand and gravel to form 'tarcrete' across 5 percent of Kuwait's landscape.
 * An estimated one to 1.5 billion barrels of oil were released into the environment. After most burned, 25 to 40 million barrels ended up spread across the desert and 11 million barrels in the Persian Gulf, according to a 2012 paper published in Remote Sensing of Environment. For comparison, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill into the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to have released nearly 5 million barrels of oil. Kuwait's landscape has recovered somewhat. Clean up efforts have removed 21 million barrels of oil from the desert, but an estimated 1 million barrels still remain.
 * NASA, “Landsat Top Ten - Kuwait Oil Fires”, (07.23.12).

 * I’ve said many times that there isn’t a country in the world that would find billions of barrels of oil and leave it in the ground while there is a market for it.
 * Justin Trudeau, speaking about the . As quoted by, Canada approves controversial Kinder Morgan oil pipeline (30 November 2016).
 * The most important strategic resource during the Cold War was oil. The first half of the twentieth century had seen its rise from a minor source of energy to becoming the substance that made modern states work. Armies depended on it for transport, and civilian economies depended on it for production. The Soviet Union became self-sufficient in 1954, so it was not competing with the West for access to foreign oil for its own sake. But the post-Stalin Moscow leaders knew how dependent US allies were on oil imports for their economic development. In western Europe dependence on oil for energy consumption increased from less than 10 percent in 1945 to over a third in 1960. In Japan the figures were even more striking: from 6 percent to 40. Eight-five percent of western Europe’s imports came from the Middle East already by 1950. For the United States, which up to 1970 relied primarily on its own production for domestic use, controlling access to Middle Eastern oil was therefore still of major strategic importance.
 * Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War: A Global History (2017)

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Military

The military, also called the armed forces, are forces authorized to use deadly force, and weapons, to support the interests of the state and some or all of its citizens. The task of the military is usually defined as defense of the state and its citizens, and the prosecution of war against another state.

A

 * But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
 * Adin Ballou, Christian Non-Resistance: In All its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended (1846).

B

 * Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, "It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be."
 * Francis Bacon, "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates," The Essays or Counsels Civil & Moral of Francis Bacon, p. 129 (1905). Bacon quoted the words of Thyrsis in Virgil's Eclogue VII.

 * The Pentagon budget is out of control. It’s been out of control since after World War II. And then especially since after 9/11 and the war on terrorism has been an excuse to keep building up and building up and building up the Pentagon budget. Even Trump himself said the other day that the Pentagon budget was out of control. But then he goes and he asked for more money for the Pentagon. So...if you add in things like the veterans’ issues and the Energy Department that deals with nuclear weapons, over a trillion dollars that we spend every year on militarism. And that’s where we have to address how we can pull money out of the Pentagon, not affect our safety and security; in fact, make us safer, because we will [not] be antagonizing so many other countries with endless wars.
 * Interview "The Green New Deal Must Fight Militarism, by Dharna Noor, The Real News Network'' (17 December 2018)

 * Let’s take one issue alone, and that’s U.S. military bases overseas, for example. There are over 800 U.S. military bases. The vast majority of them are serving no national security purpose. They’re relics of World War II. Why do we need dozens of military bases in Germany, in Italy? We have them in Korea now, where there’s peace talks in Korea, and yet we still have dozens of military bases. In fact, over 80 of them.
 * Interview "The Green New Deal Must Fight Militarism, by Dharna Noor, The Real News Network'' (17 December 2018)

 * All Societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself. Just What is so valued varies.
 * Michael Billig, in Banal Nationalism (1995) Introduction

 * I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
 * Smedley Butler, "America's Armed Forces," Common Sense, vol. 4, no. 11 (1935), pp. 8-12

 * "Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service."
 * Smedley Butler War is a racket (1935)

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 * Hey, what are ya gonna do, nice college boy, eh? Didn't want to get mixed up in the family business huh? Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why? Because he slapped you in the face a little bit? Hah? What do you think this is, the Army where you shoot 'em a mile away? You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing! You blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.
 * Satino "Sonny" Corleone as interpreted by James Caan in The Godfather, (1972); written by Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's novel.

D

 * A Serjeant is a soldier with a halbert, and a drummer is a soldier with a drum.
 * Thomas Denison, Lloyd v. Wooddall (1748), 1 Black. 30; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 15.

 * The Pale Blue Dot (photograph) is a silent rebuke to the fundamentalist, the nationalist, the militarist, the polluter-to anyone who does not put above all other things the protection of our little planet and the life that it sustains in the vast cold darkness.
 * Ann Druyan Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)

 * As a military professional, I knew that the most important element is trust- the vision had to be built on trust. The very basis for why soldiers fight the way they do is the trust they have in their teammates, their fellow soldiers. It's usually less dramatic off the battlefield but still equally important. Without trust in each other and trust in the institution, you will not be able to realize your vision.
 * Ann E. Dunwoody, A Higher Standard (2015), p. 191

 * I have to laugh when people ask, "How's retired life?" I'm as busy as I've ever been, except now I make my own schedule. I see my husband every day. I finally get to spend regular quality time with family and friends. I no longer miss milestone events such as baby showers, birthdays, graduations, and weddings. I wrote this book. I started a consulting company, First 2 Four, LLC. I serve on multiple boards. I even continue to give speeches at universities and corporate gatherings, despite my continued fear of public speaking. But nothing- absolutely nothing- can replace the pride and purpose of being a soldier.
 * Ann E. Dunwoody, A Higher Standard (2015), p. 200

 * Not everyone is cut out for the military, but I do believe everyone can and should have the opportunity to participate in a national service endeavor of their choice. Serving in the military can make you a better citizen, employee, and leader. The military provides hands-on experience. It provides leadership training and builds a foundation for a strong work ethic. Corporate America has taken notice and regularly recruits soldiers just as it does Ivy League students.
 * Ann E. Dunwoody, A Higher Standard (2015), p. 200

 * “The army,” says a Moslem historian, with charming clarity, “is the source and means of government.”
 * Will Durant and, , Book I, Our Oriental Heritage (1935) quoting Smith, Ox. H., 229.

E

 * She might have assumed that the fusion ships were doing something useful, but the media was full of talk of “military exercises,” which meant the Tirans and the Ghahari were engaging in expensive, belligerent gestures in orbit, trying to convince each other of their superior skills, technology, or sheer strength of numbers. For people with no real differences apart from a few centuries of recent history, they could puff up their minor political disputes into matters of the utmost solemnity. It might almost have been funny, if the idiots hadn’t incinerated hundreds of thousands of each other’s citizens every few decades, not to mention playing callous and often deadly games with the lives of the inhabitants of smaller nations.
 * Greg Egan, Glory (2007) in Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan (eds.) The New Space Opera (mass market paperback edition, ISBN 978-0-06-135041-2), pp. 123-124

 * In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel 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, farewell radio and television address to the American people, Washington, D.C., January 17, 1961. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960–61, p. 1038.

 * Some day there is going to be a man sitting in my present chair who has not been raised in the military services and who will have little understanding of where slashes in their estimates can be made with little or no damage. If that should happen while we still have the state of tension that now exists in the world, I shudder to think of what could happen in this country.
 * Dwight D. Eisenhower, letter to Everett E. ("Swede") Hazlett, August 20, 1956.—William Bragg Ewald, Jr., Eisenhower the President, p. 248 (1981). Date of the letter provided by the Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas.

G

 * The Cold War may well be remembered, then, as the point at which military strength, a defining characteristic of "power" itself for the past five centuries, ceased to be that. The Soviet Union collapsed, after all, with its military forces, even its nuclear capabilities, fully intact. The advance of technology, together with a culture of caution that transcended ideology, caused the nature of power itself to shift between 1945 and 1991: by the time the Cold War ended, the capacity to fight wars no longer guaranteed the influence of states, or even their continued existence, within the international system.
 * John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (2005), p. 263
 * In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.
 * Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II, Chapter XVII

 * Like a plague, the mad spirit is sweeping the country, infesting the clearest heads and staunchest hearts with the deathly germ of militarism...militarism, the destroyer of youth, the raper of women, the annihilator of the best in the race, the very mower of life.
 * Emma Goldman Preparedness, the Road to Universal Slaughter (1915)

 * The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.
 * Emma Goldman What is Patriotism? (1908)

 * Meanwhile, the U.S. debt remains, as it has been since 1790, a war debt; the United States continues to spend more on its military than do all other nations on earth put together, and military expenditures are not only the basis of the government's industrial policy; they also take up such a huge proportion of the budget that by many estimations, were it not for them, the United States would not run a deficit at all.
 * David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), p. 365.

 * The U.S. military, unlike any other, maintains a doctrine of global power projection: that it should have the ability, through roughly 800 overseas military bases, to intervene with deadly force absolutely anywhere on the planet. In a way, though, land forces are secondary; at least since World War II, the key to U.S. military doctrine has always been a reliance on air power. The United States has fought no war in which it did not control the skies, and it has relied on aerial bombardment far more systematically than any other military-in its recent occupation of Iraq, for instance, even going so far as to bomb residential neighborhoods of cities ostensibly under its own control. The essence of U.S. military predominance in the world is, ultimately, the fact that it can, at will, drop bombs, with only a few hours' notice, at absolutely any point on the surface of the planet. No other government has ever had anything remotely like this sort of capability. In fact, a case could well be made that it is this very power that holds the entire world monetary system, organized around the dollar, together.
 * David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), p. 365-366

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 * There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. 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. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
 * Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961), chapter 5, p. 46. A more succinct definition of Catch-22 comes from Jacob Brackman's review of the film, Catch-22: "If you're crazy, they have to take you out of combat, but the catch is you have to ask them, and if you're trying to get out of combat then you can't be crazy." Frederick Kiley and Walter McDonald, eds., A Catch-22 Casebook (1973), p. 363. The review originally appeared in Esquire (September 1970).

 * A soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded. ... If he is unwilling to comply, he must be rejected. A military commander ... must resign or be rejected. If a catechumen or a believer seeks to become a soldier, they must be rejected, for they have despised God.
 * Hippolytus of Rome, Apostolic Tradition, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 22

K

 * In 1806 the French under Napoleon had defeated the Prussians in a six-week campaign, trouncing them with such aplomb at the Battle of Jena that the philosopher Hegel had moved to celebrate Napoleon as the "world soul." In 1870 all signs indicated that the outcome would be otherwise. The French military ataché [ Eugène Stoffel] in Berlin had recently made a chilling observation: "Prussia is not a country which has an army. Prussia is an army which has a country."
 * , The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (2006) p. 275; citing S. C. Burchell, Upstart Empire: Paris During the Brilliant Years of Louis-Napoleon (1971) p. 321; see also Eugène Stoffel (Le Colonel Baron Stoffel), Rapports militaires écrits de Berlin (1871).

 * Dumb stupid animals to be used.
 * Henry Kissinger describing soldiers, as quoted in "The Final Days" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in chapter 14. Page 194 in the paperback version (1995). Google Books link

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 * Little generals and painted gods raise armies to waste lives and goods and spoil the sacred earth.
 * Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best SF 6, p. 247 (Originally published in Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, June 2000)

 * Armies, the world over, destroy enemies' property when they can not use it; and even destroy their own to keep it from the enemy. Civilized belligerents do all in their power to help themselves, or hurt the enemy, except a few things regarded as barbarous or cruel. Among the exceptions are the massacre of vanquished foes, and non-combatants, male and female.
 * Abraham Lincoln, letter to James C. Conkling (26 August 1863)

 * I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.
 * Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln by General James B. Fry. Allen Thorndike Rice, Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln (1886), chapter 22, p. 393. This supposedly had been part of Lincoln's response to a young volunteer soldier who had come to Lincoln's office asking his help with a grievance. The story has been repeated in numerous books on Lincoln: Alexander K. McClure, "Abe" Lincoln's Yarns and Stories (1904), p. 162; Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1917), vol. 2, p. 153; and Caroline T. Harnsberger, The Lincoln Treasury (1950), p. 14.

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 * The soldier, be he friend or foe, is charged with the protection of the weak and unarmed. It is the very essence and reason for his being. When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult but threatens the very fabric of international society. The traditions of fighting men are long and honorable. They are based upon the noblest of human traits—sacrifice.
 * From a 1946 statement by Gen. Douglas MacArthur confirming the death sentence imposed by a U. S. military commission on Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita, as quoted in MacArthur's Reminscences (McGraw-Hill, 1964) p. 295. Also used as the epigraph to Telford Taylor's Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy (New York: Bantam, 1970).

 * In the United States… a handful of corporations centralize decisions and responsibilities that are relevant for military and political as well as economic developments of global significance. For nowadays the military and the political cannot be separated from economic considerations of power. We now live not in an economic order or a political order, but in a political economy that is closely linked with military institutions and decisions. This is obvious in the repeated “oil crisis” in the Middle East, or in the relevance of Southeast Asia and African resources for the Western powers…
 * C. Wright Mills, Character & Social Structure (1954).

 * What the main drift of the twentieth century has revealed is that the economy has become concentrated and incorporated in the great hierarchies, the military has become enlarged and decisive to the shape of the entire economic structure; and moreover the economic and the military have become structurally and deeply interrelated, as the economy has become a seemingly permanent war economy; and military men and policies have increasingly penetrated the corporate economy.
 * C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (1956).

 * For the corporation executives, the military metaphysic often coincides with their interest in a stable and planned flow of profit; it enables them to have their risk underwritten by public money; it enables them reasonably to expect that they can exploit for private profit now and later, the risky research developments paid for by public money. It is, in brief, a mask of the subsidized capitalism from which they extract profit and upon which their power is based.
 * C. Wright Mills, The Causes of World War Three (1958).

 * "Be a true patriot and don't forget: force should only be used in the service of right. Unarmed people deserve the respect of the Armed Forces... [...] A soldier cannot be a whistle-blower, unless it means saving the fatherland..."
 * Bento Moreira Lima. A Caixa Preta do Golpe de 64. Paulo de Mello Bastos.

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 * It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the 'journalists' do the shouting, and no 'true patriot' ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.
 * George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia (1938)

 * War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
 * Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defence against a homicidal maniac. The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda.
 * George Orwell in his Review of The Men I Killed by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier, CB, CMG, DSO, in New Statesman and Nation (28 August 1937)

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 * I threw families onto the street in Iraq, only to come home and find families thrown onto the street in this country, in this tragic and unnecessary foreclosure crisis. We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant land. They're not people whose names we don't know and cultures we don't understand. The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify. The enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable. The enemy is CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable. It's the insurance companies who deny us health care when it's profitable. It's the banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not five thousand miles away. They are right here at home.
 * Michael Prysner, "Our Real Enemies" December 21, 2011

 * We are told we are fighting terrorists. The real terrorist was me. And the real terrorism is this occupation.
 * Michael Prysner, "Our Real Enemies" December 21, 2011

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 * Everyone acknowledges that people come to the evidence with different preconceptions. But we can't go into these problems assuming that the civilian bias, which tends toward arms control, and the view that everyone is rational, is necessarily more appropriate than the military bias.  That needs to be argued, not just assumed.
 * Mark Riebling, "Rumsfeld's New Spy Unit," Broadcast on National Public Radio (October 31, 2002). Full transcript online

 * Every time the Secretary of Defense tries to get a hand on his many intelligence programs, we hear warnings about the dire consequences to liberty. When you look behind those warnings, what you really see is the CIA trying to preserve its perks.
 * Mark Riebling, "Rumsfeld's New Spy Unit," Broadcast on National Public Radio (October 31, 2002). Full transcript online

 * The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military’s motives.
 * Mark Riebling, "Rumsfeld's New Spy Unit," Broadcast on National Public Radio (October 31, 2002). Full transcript online

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 * A bellicose stance toward Russia has become so routine and widespread that we might not give it a second thought... Often the biggest lies involve what remains unsaid. For instance, U.S. media rarely mention such key matters as the promise-breaking huge expansion of NATO to Russia’s borders since the fall of the Berlin Wall... or the more than 800 U.S. military bases overseas -- in contrast to Russia’s nine... The lives -- and even existence -- of future generations are at stake in the relationship between Washington and Moscow... The [USA's] incessant drumbeat is in sync with what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.
 * Norman Solomon in ...Hostile Propaganda: Contempt for diplomacy with Russia is now extreme,  Common Dreams (16 July 2018)

 * Terrible as an army with banners.
 * Song of Solomon, VI. 4 and 10.

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 * What other job lets you die for a living?
 * Erik Tarloff M*A*S*H (TV series) Your Retention, Please

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 * Enjoin this upon the Officers, and let them inculcate, and press home to the Soldiery, the Necessity of Order and Harmony among them, who are embark'd in one common Cause, and mutually contending for all that Freeman [sic] hold dear. I am persuaded, if the Officers will but exert themselves, these Animosities, this Disorder, will in a great Measure subside, and nothing being more essential to the Service than that it should, I am hopeful nothing on their Parts will be wanting to effect it.
 * George Washington, letter to Major General Philip Schuyler, July 17, 1776; reported in John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, vol. 5 (1932), p. 290–91.

 * Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
 * George Washington, general orders, July 6, 1777; reported in John C. Fitzpatrick, ed., The Writings of George Washington, vol. 8 (1933), p. 359.

 * Really when I reflect upon the characters and attainments of some of the General Officers of this army, and consider that these are the persons on whom I am to rely to lead columns against the French Generals, and who are to carry my instructions into execution, I tremble; and, as Lord Chesterfield said of the Generals of his day, "I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names he trembles as I do."
 * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Torrens, August 29, 1810.—Antony Brett-James, Wellington at War, 1794–1815, p. 199 (1961). Lord Chesterfield's comment is Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).

 * To know when to retreat; and to dare to do it.
 * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, when asked the best test of a great general.—Sir William Fraser, Words on Wellington, p. 37 (1889).

 * [A]rmies are only expedients, necessary evils. They should be kept out of sight for the same reason I keep the guns out of sight in my home. A military parade does not display greatness—it displays power. And that may be where I most part company with our new nationalists.
 * Kevin D. Williamson, "The Nationalism Show" (March 2019), National Review

 * The syndicalists fight against every form of militarism, which they see as a terrible threat to the physical and mental well-being of the people, which is in reality only a weapon in the hands of the ruling classes to protect the power of the propertied classes against the working class, harnessing power of the great majority of the people against the rebellion of the oppressed. For the workers of all lands, there is no benefit to be had from slaughtering one another, and it is only their ignorance which arranges for them to go to the wars which are the result of conflicts of interests between the capitalists of different States.
 * Milly Witkop, What Does the Syndicalist Women’s Union Want?. “Was will der syndikalistische Frauenbund.” Berlin: Verl. Der Syndikalist, Fritz Kater, 1922. Translated by Jesse Cohn.

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 * With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer.
 * Author unknown. Inscription on the memorial to the Seabees (U.S. Naval Construction Batallions), between Memorial Bridge and Arlington Cemetery. "The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer." Motto of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II, according to The Home Book of American Quotations, ed. Bruce Bohle, p. 35 (1967), which says that other branches of the service also used this slogan. Newsweek, March 8, 1943, p. 34, attributes this "cocky slogan" to the Army Air Forces. A higher comparative, "The impossible we do at once; the miraculous takes a little longer," was said to be the motto of the Army Service Forces. The New York Times (November 4, 1945), p. 2E, 6E. This echoes a remark attributed to Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, Louis XVI's minister of finance. Marie Antoinette asked him something in a tone that brooked no refusal, adding that perhaps it would be difficult. He replied, "If it is only difficult, it is done; if it is impossible, we shall see." J. F. Michaud, Biographie Universelle, vol. 6, p. 427.

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Satchel Paige

Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige (July 7, 1906 – June 8, 1982) was an American baseball player whose pitching in the Negro leagues and in Major League Baseball made him a legend in his own lifetime. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971, the first player to be inducted from the Negro leagues.

Quotes

 * I ain't as fast as I used to be, but I'm a better pitcher. I used to overpower them; now I out-cute them.
 * "The Independent," (St. Petersburg, Florida, July 8, 1948)
 * Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society— the social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. And don't look back— something might be gaining on you.
 * "How to Stay Young," Collier's Magazine (13 June 1953)

 * There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common.
 * "Change of Pace" by Jim Raglin, Lincoln Evening Journal and Nebraska State Journal (July 26, 1958), p. 8

 * Cool Papa was so fast that he could turn off the light switch and get into bed before the room got dark.
 * "On Today's Scene: Paige Admits He's Feeling His Age" by William Gildea, The Washington Post (Apr 29, 1969), p. D2

 * Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
 * New York Post (4 October 1959)

 * I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
 * New York Times (June 9, 1982)

 * They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever saw... I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t give me no justice.
 * New York Times (June 9, 1982)

 * Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.
 * "Telfer campaign" (March 2003)

Maybe I'll Pitch Forever (1961)

 * You may be right, man, but 22 years is a long time to be a rookie.
 * In response to sportswriter's touting of Paige's stellar but much-belated first MLB season as frontrunner for AL Rookie of the Year honors.

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 * A bunch of the fellows get in a barber session the other day and they start to arguefy about the best pitcher they ever seen. Some says and  and  and old  and . And they mention  and and  and  tells us about Matty and he sure must of been great and some of the boys even say old Diz is the best they ever see. But I see all them fellows but Matty and Johnson and I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big, lanky colored boy. Say, old Diz is pretty fast back in 1933 and 1934, and you know my fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet Satchel shoots up to the plate. And I really know something about it, because for four, five years, I tour around at the end of the season with All-Star teams and I see plenty of old Satch. He sure is a pistol. It's too bad those colored boys don't play in the big leagues, because they sure got some great players. [...] Anyways, that skinny old Satchel Paige with those long arms is my idea of the pitcher with the greatest stuff I ever did see.
 * , excerpt from a Dean-authored column published two days earlier; as reproduced in "Diz Says Page is Best Pitcher in Baseball," The Pittsburgh Courier (September 24, 1938), p. 17

 * I have pitched 31 games against that Satchel Paige and that guy really has something. If he pitches in the majors, he'd be worth $1 million. He's still a great pitcher, but was he some boy a few years ago. Wowee!
 * , as quoted in "Everybody Talked Satch But Jackie Was 1st" by Phil Pepe, New York Daily News (February 12, 1971)

 * Get the runs now, boys; is coming.
 * Casey Stengel, speaking as manager of the, whenever he saw Paige preparing to relieve the opposing pitcher; as quoted in "Everybody Talked Satch But Jackie Was 1st" by Phil Pepe, New York Daily News (February 12, 1971)

 * 'Satchel' Paige, pitcher for the Bismark, N.D., team which is in the tournament, is one of the greatest flingers, Wagner thinks. Wagner has seen him play. "The only trouble they will have about Paige is getting a catcher to hold him. Boy—that fellow has a speed ball that goes in there like a bullet. I've seen it go right through a catcher and into the stands. It takes a great backstop to stand up to his fastball. Quite often, Paige has that trouble—a catcher who just can't hold him. Then he has to ease down and when he eases down you can beat him. That colored boy is tall, slender and has good shoulders and arms. He looks like 'Dizzy' Dean and pitches much like him."
 * , as paraphrased and quoted in "Wagner Predicts Cards Will Capture Pennant; Baseball Immortal, Here for Tourney, Says Red Birds Are 'Fighters'; Warns a Colored Dizzy Dean is Headed This Way; "Strong for 'Satchel,'" The Wichita Beacon (August 13, 1935), p. 1

 * It starts out like a baseball and when it gets to the plate, it looks like a marble.
 * , describing Paige's fastball; as quoted in "Everybody Talked Satch But Jackie Was 1st" by Phil Pepe, New York Daily News (February 12, 1971)

 * Paul [Robeson] was holding forth on the wizardry of old Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and other black ballplayers jimcrowed out of what was euphemistically called the national pastime.
 * Ollie Harrington, Why I Left America and Other Essays (1993)

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