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" Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did. "
John Keegan
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" If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman. "
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" It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help. "
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" I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books. "
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" The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people. "
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" Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people. "
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" The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West. "
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" The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need. "
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" Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. "
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