Category: army general
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It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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With a chemical alarm, you’re going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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The doctrines & miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small part of the human race, & even among Christian nations, what gross errors still exist!
Robert E. Lee
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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.
Robert Baden-Powell
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.
Robert Baden-Powell
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte