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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.


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GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated an...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ide...
FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed a...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ......
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Victory is a thing of the will.
MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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