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Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.
R. Lee Ermey
Training
Old
Back
Those
Go
Were
Infiltrate
Vietnam
Peacetime
Marine
When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.
Ben Horowitz
You
Game
Competition
Top
Tends
Highest
Look
Executing
Well
Very
Succeeded
Company
Multiple
Peacetime
Defeated
Necessarily
Margins
Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.
Tim Kennedy
Time
Peace
Born
Forces
Sure
Than
Just
Different
Special
Special Forces
Wartime
Peacetime
I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.
Francoise Gilot
Met
Nothing
Think
Would
Picasso
Had
Happened
Really
Peacetime
Under the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.
M. Stanton Evans
Education
Government
Thanksgiving
Constitution
Beginning
Christian
Memorials
Indians
New
New Government
Were
Repeated
Prayers
Northwest
Ordinance
Measures
Peacetime
Funding
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
Phil Klay
Life
Death
War
God
Prayer
You
Soul
Believe
Tremendous
Significance
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Life And Death
Purpose
True
Combat
Does
Always
Making
Making Decisions
Same
Human
Decisions
Stakes
Then
Notion
Human Soul
Peacetime
Serve
Zone
There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You
Other
Polarization
Issues
Wartime
Peacetime
Need
I've always had a lot of time for servicemen. Yet there's been this bad relationship between civilians and the armed services. We say to soldiers, 'We want you when we want you, but stay away in peacetime. We're proud of you, but keep away from my daughter and don't come drinking in my pub.'
Ross Kemp
Time
Relationship
You
Daughter
Drinking
Soldiers
Say
Bad
Stay
Civilians
Had
Between
Armed
Come
Armed Services
Always
Proud
Been
Lot
Want
Pub
Keep
Peacetime
Away
Servicemen
Services
The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.
James F. Byrnes
Impossible
Minimum
Economy
Reach
Industrial
Powers
Make
Occupying
Were
Exist
Conditions
German
Germany
Essential
Which
Production
Agreed
Now
Peacetime
Levels
Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
Gijs de Vries
War
Ought
Circumstances
Civilians
Indiscriminate
Attacks
Illegal
Peacetime
I don't think I would have written a combat novel if I had just had peacetime military training. I think, in fact, I probably would have remained a poet and just written a short story every now and then.
Joe Haldeman
Training
Poet
Military
Every
Think
Would
Fact
Remained
Had
Written
Combat
Short
Just
In Fact
Short Story
Story
Then
Novel
Military Training
Now
Now And Then
Peacetime