"Even military ministers have no more than a certain amount of control. It is customary that they have the right and the power to participate, from a political and military point of view, in the planning of actual operations"

-- Hideki Tojo

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“The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.”
“I always prefer to write songs about emotional situations and heartbreak because I like getting into the character.”
“As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.”
“I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.”
“Today, we're encouraged to believe that we should have a verbal interpretation for what we view as art - when in fact the words are an intrusion on the experience.”
“Since I was eight years old, I went to Trinity. I mean, I listened to Reverend Wright since I was a kid and I always heard him preach sermons of love and inspiration.”
“The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.”
“A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.”

Source : Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.69, Penguin

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