"There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself."

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Source : Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

Ferdinand Foch

#Mean Quotes #Fire Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.”
“Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.”
“It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.”
“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”
“I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.”
“Compassion is the litmus test.”
“Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all through everything; because it rises above the distinctions between plants and animals and human beings; because it is a universal element shared by all; itself undetermined, yet determining; because, like the primal mother it is, it supplies the stuff of life to everything living.”
“New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.”

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