State Central Military

Famous quotes containing the words state, central and/or military:

    “Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “Incarnate devil in a talking snake,
    The central plains of Asia in his garden,
    In shaping-time the circle stung awake,
    In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple....”
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    “His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)