"The truth is, no study is possible on the battle-field; one does there simply what one can in order to apply what one knows . Therefore, in order to do even a little, one has already to know a great deal and to know it well."

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Source : Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

Ferdinand Foch

#Order Quotes #Battle Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.”
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“Chess is neither a science nor an art. It is what human nature most delights in--a fight.”
“I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.”
“We fell in love last night. He's the coolest guy.”
“Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.”
“No-one is born with perfect eyebrow.”
“The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series.”

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