"Victory is a thing of the will."

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Source : "The Guns of August". Book by Barbara Tuchman, 1962.

Ferdinand Foch

#Military Quotes #Victory Quotes

“Insight must precede application.”
“From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.”
“Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.”
“I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. January 21, 2003.
“If you want to make something happen, you can make it happen. There's always a way if it's what you want.”
“It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.”
“It is our very search, our lust for the miraculous and magical, that hides from us the truth that simply to be, simply to know I am, is already the miracle that we seek. Everything, as it is, is perfect, but you must stop seeing it as if in a mirror, as if in a dream.”
“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”

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