"In battle, topography is fate."

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Source : Rick Atkinson (2007). “An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy”, p.2, Macmillan

Rick Atkinson

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“Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.”

Source : "It is not fanciful to make the pursuit of happiness a political imperative" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2006.
“If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.”

Source : Bud Wilkinson (1993). “Football: Winning Offense”, p.13, Sports Illustrated
“The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.”
“It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.”
“Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.”
“When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace”
“One does not greet the Queen of the Seelie Court with the barbarous human 'hello'...”
“If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.”

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