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“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn”. –Desiderius Erasmus

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success”. –Jim Backus

“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next”. –George Steinbrenner

“Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure”. –Thomas Edison