Gerd von Rundstedt famous quotes

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Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that as soon as one force was wiped out, the path was blocked by the arrival of a fresh force.
-- Gerd von Rundstedt

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Make peace, you fools!
-- Gerd von Rundstedt

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Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.
-- Gerd von Rundstedt

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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
"Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's all about. "But you're not auditioning for a role," I try to persuade him. "Aren't I?" he raises his eyebrows.
I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.

Gerd von Rundstedt famous quotes

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