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“Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.”
― The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation
― The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation
“How could one want an equalitarian and free society to issue from an authoritarian organisation? It is impossible.”
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“We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“By a series of calculations which need not be here explained, Colonel Cole has concluded that the individual weights carried within the legions were as follows:
Total for road marching 57.21 lbs.
Total for approach march 44 lbs.
Tactical load in combat zone 33 lbs.”
― The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation
Total for road marching 57.21 lbs.
Total for approach march 44 lbs.
Tactical load in combat zone 33 lbs.”
― The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation
“There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no on ewould save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
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