“Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington].
“J’ai fait mon devoir. Moi, j’ai été victime d’un gros accident sur la 15 cet été lors d’un orage. Un gros fardier a accroché mon auto, que est partie en tête à queue avant de cogner dur. Je suis sorti complètement sonné. Personne ne s’est arrêté pour savoir si ça allait. Ils ralentissaient juste pour regarder.”
A passing motorist who saved a 19-year-old trapped upside-down in his car in a ditch by holding a ballpoint pen in his mouth so he could breathe until rescue equipment arrived, quoted in Le Journal de Montreal Nov. 13, 2003
“If you try to do without the supernatural you will get the superstitious.”
G.K. Chesterton in New York Sun Jan. 5 1919, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #1 (Sept.-Oct. 2022)
“For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite/ The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”
John of Gaunt in Shakespeare Richard II I.iii
“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guess what was at the other side of the hill’.”
The Duke of Wellington according to AZ Quotes [https://www.azquotes.com/author/15482-Duke_of_Wellington]
“unlike traditional commodities, which sometimes during the course of their market exchange must be delivered to someone in physical form, the carbon market is based on the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no one.”
Mark Schapiro (apparently) in Harper’s in early 2010 [I found it here https://www.integrity-research.com/wanted-independent-research-to-assess-carbon-offsets/ but the link back to Harper’s is broken, as is a similar link in another piece quoting it; perhaps Harper’s pulled it; this piece attributes it to Mark Schapiro: https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/columns/air-travel-major-contributor-to-climate-change/].
“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”
Carl Jung, quoted as Standalone “Words of Wisdom” in Epoch Times email teaser December 15, 2022 [not further attributed].
“Alfred North Whitehead, wisely wrote that the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity that is on the far side of complexity.”
Richard John Neuhaus’s intro to Allan Carlson, Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis p. x. [and referring back explicitly to Paul Ricoeur’s second naivete quoted here on March 24, 2023].