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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.


Barbara W. Tuchman

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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
BARBARA TUCHMAN In this war - as in others - I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.
BUTLER SHAFFER [The employees who toured with the Dead will feel the pinch, as well.] There's crew and there's secu...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD Every silver linings got a touch of grey
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will sur...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA And like no other sculpture in the history of art, the dead engine and dead airframe come to life at...
RICHARD BACH What a long, strange trip it's been.
GRATEFUL DEAD Yeah, Badu, all of that peace that you
be talkin' about, we got to fight first. This is the st...
DEAD PREZ How bout we start / with a salad, a fresh bed of lettuce with croutons / Later we can play a game of...
DEAD PREZ As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are di...
DEAD PREZ Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right.
GRATEFUL DEAD Wipeout.
GRATEFUL DEAD Dick's Picks 35: 8/7 & 24/'71
GRATEFUL DEAD We're all very influenced by jam music. We abolished the solo (in favor of) group improv,
GRATEFUL DEAD Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. "We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna ...
ROBERT KIRKMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN We counted at least 60 dead on Tuesday, and on Wednesday no less than 20.
EMEKA UMEH Let the dead bury their dead.
BIBLE Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT
ROBERT KIRKMAN Một người này có thể sống trong ký ức của một người kia, không chỉ hình ả...
NGUYễN NHậT ÁNH - The myths are dead. The gods are dead. The ghosts and ghouls and phantoms are dead. There is only ...
NEIL GAIMAN A living fool is worth less than a dead hero.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There's no wound deeper than a pen can give, It makes men living dead, and dead men live
JOHN TAYLOR No one knows the dead world? Only the dead spirits?
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
RICK RIORDAN India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still som...
SRI AUROBINDO India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still som...
SRI AUROBINO May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ism...
SOPHOCLES We presume that more or less than 1,800 are feared dead.
COL. RAUL FARNACIO Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
JOHANN VON GOETHE ...I turned in and slept like the dead. There were no dreams.
STEPHEN KING Atârnați tăblițe deasupra mormintelor, ciopliți în piatră că totul a fost degeaba! Spuneți-...
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN War is about dead people.
SCOTT RITTER And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication o...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten...
ROBERT KIRKMAN The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurg...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Silver’s sweet and gold’s our mother, but once you’re dead they’re worth less than that last...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN War would end if the dead could return.
STANLEY BALDWIN Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
JIM CARROLL There's no way you can justify somebody holding up a sign saying things like, 'Pray for more dead so...
BOB SWANSON Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and y...
LOUIS C. K. Your mind goes blank because you're almost saying to yourself, 'What's this going to feel like when ...
ANGELO CHARLES CRAPANZANO Only the dead have seen the end of war.
PLATO The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowes...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Relativity might be as dead as the dead because as it can't exist in the dead.
EPHDAN What the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication<...
T.S. ELIOT What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes...
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers ...
ROBERT GRAVES Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA For the dead there are no more toils.
SOPHOCLES The driver of the pickup, 37-year-old Barbara Mackenzie of Whitehorse suffered fatal injuries and wa...
JOHN SUTHERLAND All the gods are dead except the god of war.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER All the gods are dead except the god of war
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
MARY HARRIS JONES Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
MARY HARRIS "MOTHER" JONES Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living
MOTHER JONES And mighty poets in their misery dead.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Let the dead stay dead.
K.L. PENINGTON A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings.
CHARLES MARTIN I believe that our friends among the dead really mind us and look out for us. Often there might be a...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act,--act in the living Pr...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW …the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Let the dead bury the dead.
UNKNOWN Let the dead bury the dead
SUNDAY ADELAJA The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
GRAHAM GREENE They don't bite. Their defense mechanism is they just play dead. They roll over on their back, throw...
BOB PENDERGRASS Perez Documet and the other military officials want one thing: to make sure Luis Alberto won't talk....
CARLOS RIVERA Only the forgotten are truly dead.
TESS GERRITSEN The morning sun burned away the mist so the valley below is now clear. The scope of what I see drown...
CARRIE RYAN We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and ...
CHAIM POTOK I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
DEAN KOONTZ One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, ...
STéPHANE AUDEGUY If your mind is not in the present time, your body will look like a dead body, cold and insensible!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN At least 600,000 men died in the Civil War. Major battles numbered the dead in the thousands; even m...
PHILLIP SHAW PAUADAN Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in...
J.K. ROWLING All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin ...
STEPHEN KING Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L even if you're dead.
RON WHITE A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings. I
CHARLES MARTIN No good Indian but a dead Indian
AMERICAN PROVERB A dead atheist is someone who's all dressed up with no place to go.
JAMES DUFFECY There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
VIRGIL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and th...
NANCY HOLDER We hold each other and I’m shaking, because I’m thinking how close I came to losing her. If she�...
LINDA NAGATA Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last...
BARBARA HILLARY The dead only knows their world.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Better broke than dead.
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BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
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