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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.


Ferdinand Buisson

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SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

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And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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FERDINAND FOCH No study is possible on the battlefield.
FERDINAND FOCH The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
FERDINAND FOCH In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
FERDINAND FOCH It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
FERDINAND FOCH My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
FERDINAND FOCH My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack.
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FERDINAND MAGELLAN Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
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FERDINAND MAGELLAN The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
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FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rationa...
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FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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FERDINAND E. MARCOS A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.)
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GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.)
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LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
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LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Victory is a thing of the will.
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LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive....
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ye...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
FERDINAND E. MARCOS None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).
GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. ...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more ...
FERDINAND CHRISTIAN BAUR Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusive...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH