A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
OTTO VON BISMARCKPolitics is not an exact science.
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The nation that has the schools has the future.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
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Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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