national leaders, their advisors, and their bureaucracies are capable of gross overconfidence, sloppy analysis, lapses of objectivity, wrong-headed preconceptions, disregard of facts that cast doubt on those preconceptions, zeal at the cost of rationality, suppression of debate, punishment of dissent, and other failures, fallacies, and fantasies that can lead to wrong choices and bad results. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom."Īttributed to William Wallace “Rascals, do you want to live forever?” "We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.Įvery man dies, not every man really lives. Genghis Khan, from Jami' al-tawarikh (Ilkhanate's "History of the World") With their faces bathed in tears, to ride their horses, to squeeze in his arms their daughters and women." Snatch what they have, to see the people to whom they are dear To overcome his enemies, drive them before him,
"The moral is to the physical as three is to one," Napoleon
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