"Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained."

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Duke of Wellington

#Battle Quotes #Next Quotes #Misery Quotes

“Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.”
“Success ... seems to be connected with action. ...”
“I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.”
“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.”
“I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.”
“People dressed in a certain kind of clothing are never wrong. Also they never fart.”
“[Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that would go over there, and then something else would happen.”
“As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.”

Source : Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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