“God deliver me from my friends! I’ll take care of my enemies myself.”
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“If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.”
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“Error is ever the sequence of haste.”
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“Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.”
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“When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.”
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“We do not consider this a credible explanation.”
The BBC when Chinese authorities detained, handcuffed and beat up one of their journalists “for his own good in case he caught Covid from the crowd” November 28, 2022 (https://twitter.com/BBCNewsPR/status/1597000489513537536).
“My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.”
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“To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound.”
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