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From the days of Nebuchadnezzar to those of Saddam Hussein, despite myriad technological improvements, war was waged on an organic timetable.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
The pilot Frum believed only what his instrument panel said. He was sober, meticulous, competent, quiet, tough. When he landed a load of recruits at Peril Strait, the boys left Frum’s airplane with a sense of what kind of soldier they wanted to become.
Michael Chabon • The Yiddish Policemen's Union
She was lucky, but not passive. Lord Carrington said, ‘She used the luck and she’s been determined and courageous.’105
Henry Oliver • Second Act
“In a war, the atomic bomb and price are subject to the same limitation: both can only be used once.”
Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything
The Commonwealth, meanwhile, seemed a noble replacement for an empire that had colored a quarter of the land in our school atlases pink.
James Dyson • Invention: A Life
to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.’ WINSTON CHURCHILL
Ross Edgley • The World's Fittest Book: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Strongman Swimmer
Probably there was heroism going on down there in the smoke. Soldiers hauling injured comrades to safety through the sooty darkness. Nurses stitching wounds by screaming candlelight. Townsfolk plunging into burning buildings to drag out coughing children. Heroism of an everyday and unglamorous kind. A kind that made no difference to the overall out
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