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“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult”
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“Prussians were singularly well prepared in other areas as well. They invented the “dog tag” in 1870: an oval disc worn by every soldier bearing his name, regiment, and place of residence.”
― The Franco-Prussian War
― The Franco-Prussian War
“Men of genius are made not by new ideas, but by an idea which possesses them, namely, that what has been said has not yet been sufficiently said.”
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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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“There is still one absolute weapon ... the only weapon capable of operating with complete effectiveness-of dominating every inch of terrain where human beings live and fight, and of doing it under all conditions of light and darkness, heat and cold, desert and forest, mountain and plain. That weapon is man himself.”
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