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“We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing”
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“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
― Charles George Gordon
― Charles George Gordon
“a collision at sea will ruin your entire day”
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“When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.”
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“Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to war. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: we have to abide their outcome in the dark. And when people are entering upon a war they do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only when they have already suffered that they begin to think.”
― The Peloponnesian War
― The Peloponnesian War
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