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“I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.
Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”
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Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”
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“Good men's actions are natural
While a scoundrel's charity
Is carefully planned to please.”
― Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
While a scoundrel's charity
Is carefully planned to please.”
― Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
“Reason forbade me many things which,
Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;
And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,
I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.”
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Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;
And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,
I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.”
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“Don't believe what you're told unless your mind
Confirms its truth: palm trunks, lofty as clouds,
Stay wood.”
― Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
Confirms its truth: palm trunks, lofty as clouds,
Stay wood.”
― Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
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