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If defeat comes from moral causes, victory may come from moral causes also, and one may say: 'A battle won is a battle we will not acknowledge to be lost.'

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A war not only arises, but derives its nature, from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the moment when it breaks out.
This amounts to saying : try and know why and with the help of what you are going to act; then you will find out how to act.


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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Ferdinand Foch

Ferdinand Foch
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Born: October 2, 1851
Died: March 20, 1929 (aged 77)
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