"Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer."
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Frederick The Great quotes (page 2 of 3)
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"Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them."
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"Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid."
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"It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised."
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"A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair."
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"In trying to defend everything he defended nothing."
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"It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of money that goes out of the country in consequence. Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer."
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"Our work is to present things that are as they are."
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"Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort."
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"The people say what they like and then I do what I like"
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"God is always with the strongest battalions."
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"If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers."
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"It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet."
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"A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse."
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"If soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army."
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"I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country."
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"As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing."
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"Diplomacy without arms is like a concert without a score"
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"I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people."
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"One should never despair too soon."
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