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A. A. Gill has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson…
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing…
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment…
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing…
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The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
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Celebrity is a national drama whose characters' parts and plots are written by the tabloids, gossip columnists, websites and interactive buttons. The…
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Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot…
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I made all my generals out of mud.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed.…
— Leonard Cohen
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their…
— Duke of Wellington
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Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!
— George III
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We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but…
— Mark Twain
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In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise:…
— Sun Tzu
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Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
— Zhuge Liang
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The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the…
— Sun Tzu
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
— Duke of Wellington
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During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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