"When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it."

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Duke of Wellington

#Mistake Quotes #Army Quotes #Men Quotes

“I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice.”
“There are plenty of people in the world whose lives are governed by rote and routine. Such people will never be happy dealing with me, because I don't conform.”
“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
“Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.”
“Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.”
“On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.”
“The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to anyone except its founder.”

Source : "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, 2006.
“Christ took our hell so that we might take His heaven.”

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