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Ferdinand Foch
: One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
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Miguel de Cervantes :
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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Henri F Amiel :
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Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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Persian Proverb :
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One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
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Henri F Amiel :
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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Rush Limbaugh :
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Liberal sportswriters have pushed the notion that it's unfair that there haven't been more black quarterbacks, and I agree with that. I have simply said that their desire for McNabb to do well has caused them to rate him a little higher than perhaps he actually is.
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Ferdinand Foch :
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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Gilbert K Chesterton :
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As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
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Arthur Stanley Eddington :
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Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. (2) All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it. In applying this analogy, the catch stands for the body of knowledge which constitutes physical science, and the net for the sensory and intellectual equipment which we use in obtaining it. The casting of the net corresponds to observation; for knowledge which has not been or could not be obtained by observation is not admitted into physical science. An onlooker may object that the first generalisation is wrong. "There are plenty of sea-creatures under two inches long, only your net is not adapted to catch them." The icthyologist dismisses this objection contemptuously. "Anything uncatchable by my net is ipso facto outside the scope of icthyological knowledge. In short, "what my net can't catch isn't fish." Or — to translate the analogy — "If you are not simply guessing, you are claiming a knowledge of the physical universe discovered in some other way than by the methods of physical science, and admittedly unverifiable by such methods. You are a metaphysician. Bah!"
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Walter Benjamin :
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Juvenal :
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The original context is that a husband might lock his wife in the house to prevent her adulteries, but she is cunning and will start with the guards; hence, who guards the guards? The phrase has come to be applied broadly to people or organisations acting against dishonesty or corruption, esp. in public life.
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The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
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A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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Ferdinand Foch:
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A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
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Ferdinand Foch:
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.
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Ferdinand Foch:
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Ferdinand Foch:
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I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.
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Ferdinand Foch:
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A radish will never stand in the way of victory.
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Ferdinand Foch:
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This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.
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