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The Great Chinese Classics Have Always Said That It's Better Not To Fight; That The Clever Man Achieves His Ends Without Violence; That A Battle Delayed Is Better Than A Battle Fought.

I Think Americans Like The Practical; They Like The Human. And I Like Both Those Things Myself, And I Try And Put Them Into My Books.

Of Whatever Class Or Nation, However, All Successful Participants In The Repetitive And Unrelenting Stress Of Aerial Fighting Came Eventually To Display Its Characteristic Physiognomy: Skeletal Hands, Sharpened Noses, Tight-drawn Cheek Bones, The Bared Teeth Of A Rictus Smile And The Fixed, Narrowed Gaze Of Men In A State Of Controlled Fear.

I Think To Be Shot In A Mountain Valley Somewhere Or Other Is Altogether Less Glorious Than Crashing An Airliner Into A Skyscraper.

Hitler ... Lacked The [inclination] For Anything More Than The Occasional Sensational Display Of Emotion, In Particular The Great Set-piece Speech Which Mesmerized The Mob And Left Him Drained Of ... Energy.