"It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should have. He could have taken a different position. . . . but he didn't do that, and as a result, in my view, he had a hand in the destruction of thousands of Red Army fighters in the Kharkov campaign."

-- Aleksandr Vasilevsky

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“Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.”
“Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.”
“Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.”
“It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.”
“Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.”
“It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.”

Source : Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”
“The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?”

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