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Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

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Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end all wars and wanted to make it so, now in this Second World War almost no writer that I have read dares even suggest that this is the war to end all wars, or act on that belief? We have lost the courage to hope.

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Only friendship which can stand occasional plain speaking is worth having.

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Even in despair, man must laugh.

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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

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Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

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What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini. . . in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind.

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