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“Owning a hundred slum properties wasn’t a crime, although living in one was, almost.”
― Men at Arms
― Men at Arms
“Anyone who falls into the habit of thinking and expecting the best of his subordinates at all times is, for that reason alone, unsuited to command an army”
― On War
― On War
“Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed; war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.”
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“All creation is reducible to about a hundred and forty elements which tell the entire complex story of God’s thinking just as all literature is reducible to twenty-six letters which tell the entire complex story of all of man’s thinking.”
― The Universal One
― The Universal One
“Truth is the language that expresses universality. Newton did not “discover” a law that lay hidden from man like the answer to a rebus. He accomplished a creative operation. He founded a human speech which could express at one and the same time the fall of an apple and the rising of the sun. Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.”
― Airman's Odyssey: Night Flight, Wind Sand and Stars, and Flight to Arras—three classic tales of daring pilots in aviation's pioneer era
― Airman's Odyssey: Night Flight, Wind Sand and Stars, and Flight to Arras—three classic tales of daring pilots in aviation's pioneer era
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