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Rome under Sulla was like a bus, with half the passengers trying to drive, and the rest trying to collect the fare.

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Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

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But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

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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.
Werner Heisenberg

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Born: April 15, 1886
Died: February 22, 1968 (aged 81)
Bio: Sir Frank Ezra Adcock was a British classical historian who was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge between 1925 and 1951.
Known for:
  1. The Greek and Macedonian art of war (1957)
  2. Diplomacy in ancient Greece
  3. The Roman art of war under the republic (1940)
  4. Caesar as Man of Letters (1956)
  5. Roman Political Ideas and Practice (1959)

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