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Men are never attached to you by favours.
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Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.
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Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.
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For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
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A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world.
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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
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The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
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Men are lead by trifles.
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Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
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Power is founded upon opinion.
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So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.
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When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
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It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
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Leaders have to be dealers in hope.
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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
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The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
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In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
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The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
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Vengeance is without foresight.