"We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition."

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Source : "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" by Vladimir Sevruk, (p. 27), 1974.

Ivan Konev

#Enemy Quotes #Together Quotes #Plans Quotes

“I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.”
“Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.”
“Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.”
“By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death”
“The fixation of the theater in one language--written words, music, lights, noises--betokens its imminent ruin.”
“Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.”
“I'm European, I wake up in heels.”
“Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).”

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