"This absence of similarity among military questions naturally brings out the inability of memory to solve them; also the sterility of invariable forms, such as figures, geometrical drawings ( Ã©pures ), plans ( schÃ©mas ), etc. One only right solution imposes itself:;: namely, the application, varying according to circumstances, of fixed principles."

-- Ferdinand Foch

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“I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.”
“I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.”
“If there is to be a competition, there must be some basis for resolving it. It is also clear that the competition should be experienced based.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“This is a sad day for all of us, and to none is it sadder than to me. Everything that I have worked for, everything that I have believed in during my public life, has crashed into ruins. There is only one thing left for me to do: That is, to devote what strength and powers I have to forwarding the victory of the cause for which we have to sacrifice so much... I trust I may live to see the day when Hitlerism has been destroyed and a liberated Europe has been re-established.”

Source : Neville Chamberlain's Speech in the House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. September 3, 1939.
“I'm looking for the binding energy of a look a crop of reflections to be reaped in a winter of thorn when icebergs of illusion will melt to be served at high tea and the spaces between the poles pinned down”
“And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?”
“James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre”

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