"When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the Duce had not been so sure about the invincibility of the Germans, and he told us that he had sought to persuade Hitler not to act."

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Source : "Twenty Angels Over Rome: The Story of Fascist Italy's Fall" by Richard McMillan, (p. 70), 1945.

Pietro Badoglio

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“We cannot transform what we refuse to engage”
“confidence is a choice ... to act, or to do, or to decide.”
“Somehow [Barak] Obama's is much more disgusting than others, because he is smart and we all "know that he knows". He is thoroughly dishonest and it is clear.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily”
“It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.”

Source : "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.
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“Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.”

Source : William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry”, p.18, Harper Collins
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