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Dark Helmet1 quote
What are you preparing? You're always preparing! Just go! — Dark Helmet · 1987Dwight D. Eisenhower1 quote
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. — Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1962Ernest Hemingway1 quote
It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. — Ernest Hemingway · 1952Helmuth von Moltke the Elder1 quote
No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength. — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder · 1871Louis Pasteur1 quote
Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur · 1854Omar Little1 quote
How you expect to run with the wolves come night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies? — Omar Little · 2006Rooster Cogburn1 quote
Well, if it ain't loaded and cocked, it don't shoot! — Rooster Cogburn · 2010Sam (Ronin)1 quote
I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of. — Sam (Ronin) · 1998Seneca1 quote
A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent. — Seneca · 65Vegetius1 quote
Let him who desires peace prepare for war. — Vegetius · 383