"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
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"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed."
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."
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"I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths."
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"It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time."
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"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
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"Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears."
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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."
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"Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police."
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"If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat."
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"Good and great are seldom in the same man."
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"Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul."
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"You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist."
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"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
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"History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."
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"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."
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"In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve."
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"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose"
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"It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude."
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