“ The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ The Catholic universities should be more Catholic than what most of them are. ”
- Tom Monaghan- Copy
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“ A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. ”
- Dorothee Soelle- Copy
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“ A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
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“ A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. - Wilson Mizner. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
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“ I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions. ”
- Omar Nelson Bradley- Copy
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“ I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth — well, it's like brown — it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
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“ In enterprise of martial kind, when there was any fighting, he led his regiment from behind — he found it less exciting. ”
- W. S. Gilbert- Copy
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“ I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army. ”
- Julius Caesar- Copy
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“ General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. ”
- William Bolitho- Copy
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“ I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general… They win battles, and they make me lucky. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
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“ Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy. ”
- A. J. P. Taylor- Copy
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“ I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions — adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and… no general idea is worth a damn. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ As for being a General, well, at the age of four with paper hates and wooden swords, we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
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“ He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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“ Some are from the world of the arts, some from the fields of business, architecture, wine-making and education. What they have in common is that they are all known nationally — and many internationally — for their wide-ranging achievements. ”
- Jon Stewart- Copy
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“ The best generals I have known were… stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes — love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt… ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, "Boss you can't do that… ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
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