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Originally Posted by passthru
"Proximity fuse. Think of it. When they first presented that to me, it came up on appeal because some of my people had turned it down, as impossible.
And I talked to four fellas, and finally said to 'em 'I think it's impossible, on the face of it. But I will not stop four of you guys that think it can be done. Go ahead and waste your time, beat your brains out, try and do it.'"
-Vannevar Bush
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^ march 11?
Clark Gable - February 1, 1901
“Frankly my dear I don't give a damn.”
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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