"One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country."

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Source : "Encyclopedia of Russian History" by James R. Millar, Soviet Union, (p. 1504), 2004.

Alexander Suvorov

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“People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.”
“"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."”
“..then you must say to her, â€˜Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...”
“There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.”
“We look for God as though he were not already here.”
“Words are a distraction to enlightenment. Getting rid of conceptual thinking means enlightenment.”
“Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to help in some circumstances, but it depends a lot on what we're talking about here. But biobanking does allow for offsets in relation to a specific species, as well as specific ecological communities as well as land. It's quite a flexible tool.”

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“I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.”

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