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"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."
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"The wisest of the wise may err."
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Personal Development
"I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things."
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Personal Development
"It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself."
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"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."
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"He had a suspicion of plausible answers, they were so often wrong."
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"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
Humor
"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."
Society
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
Leadership
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
Contentment
"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
Knowledge
"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."
Observation
"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"
Politics
"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
Observation
"No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little."
Knowledge
"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."
Diplomacy
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