Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell famous quotes
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The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.
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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
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Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.
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There is no room in war for delicate machinery.
-- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
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Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
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At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
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You must never tire fighting Satan.
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My weapon isn't my shot. It's me.
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One of the first signs of a Spirit-filled life is enthusiasm!
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Let us honor the Holy Ghost.
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You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.
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The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.
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