"The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself."

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Source : In Alistair Horne 'Price of Glory' (1962) ch. 2

H. H. Asquith

#War Quotes #Office Quotes #Three Quotes

“We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.”
“Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.”
“Motivations are too tangled and complex.”
“I think what I've learned out of this lifetime is you should be proud of where you come from.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 07, 2013
“Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.”
“If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.”

Source : Andrew V. Mason (2002). “And Or Love”, p.46, Trafford Publishing
“And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them”
“Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.”

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