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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 like a lion.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

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A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

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A leader is a dealer in hope.

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.

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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

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Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.

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It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

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Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

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The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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An army marches on its stomach.

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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily

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The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

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Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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My enemies are many, my equals are none. In the shade of olive trees, they said Italy could never be conquered. In the land of Pharaohs and Kings, they said Egypt could never be humbled. In the realm of forest and snow, they said Russia could never be tamed. Now they say nothing. They fear me, like a force of nature, a dealer in thunder and death! I say: I am Napoleon, I am Emperor. (Napoleon: Total War)

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There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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I made all my generals out of mud.

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Men, in general, are but great children.

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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.

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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

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What is history but a fable agreed upon.

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[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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how easier life would be if we know about the future fluctuations so that we can amendment on it..

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

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Imagination rules the world

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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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Atikur Rahaman
maximum is worng now .only practical scientific knowledge and its honest appliacations without mad war created by few mad leaders is the only permanent benificial to the universe.
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Kamal Athithan
able was I ere I saw elba.
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