It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person … - Napoleon Bonaparte

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I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

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The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

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If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion

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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

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