#generals

The Bear had once confided to me that Durrell's ego could fit snugly in the basilica of St. Peter's in Rome but in very few other public places. This runaway megalomania marked him as a blood member of the fraternity of generals. If looks alone could make generals, Durrell would have been a cinch. He was built lean and slim and dark, like a Doberman. A man of breeding and refrigerated intelligence, he ordered his life like a table of logarithms. ↗

— Pat Conroy

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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

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War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters. ↗

— Amy Goodman

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Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops. ↗

— David Hackworth

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The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers. ↗

— Steven Berkoff

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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war. ↗

— John Bolton

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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#answer #doctors #even #generals #lives

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

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I can make more generals, but horses cost money. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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