Quote #16

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

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  2. America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between.
  3. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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  5. All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
  6. When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you m…
  7. Mr. Wilson bores me with his Fourteen Points; why, God Almighty has only Ten!
  8. A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

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