"Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: â€œDo not march on Moscowâ€. Various people have tried it, Napoleon and Hitler, and it is no good. That is the first rule. I do not know whether your Lordships will know Rule 2 of war. It is: â€œDo not go fighting with your land armies in Chinaâ€. It is a vast country, with no clearly defined objectives."

-- Bernard Law Montgomery

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“London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.”
“Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.”
“There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.”
“When I go after something, I go after it hard. It has always been that way. I don't know. It's in my blood.”
“It is home. The Twin Cities are home and [Ames] is home. Itâ€™s definitely always a place thatâ€™s going to be very special to me.”
“Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the â€˜rightâ€™ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their archaic holy books, they sometimes oppress those who disagree with them, and they always do what they do in the name of an unknowable deity... but sometimes, they wake up. Occasionally, they realize that all religions are man-made and that none of them are â€˜right.â€™ And when they do, they can live happy and fulfilling lives without dogma and without anticipating or fearing an afterlife.”

Source : "The Cave" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costa, Vintage, (p. 60), 2003.
“In its proper constitutional sense, the term [militia] means all the able-bodied people who can be trained and disciplined to act in the communityâ€™s defence when itâ€™s attacked. Since it encompasses every able-bodied person, it does not refer to thoseâ€”such as the police, the military, or even the National Guardâ€”who formally compose the official defence forces of the nation. Every citizen able and willing to act in an emergency becomes a potential defender against attacks aimed at the general population.”
“Practice makes the master.”

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