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«We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, 'You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms.'»
«Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe»
«What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence»
«You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.»
«When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.»
«To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education»
«The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.»
«The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.»

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