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Old 01-05-2015, 09:21 AM   #2446
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
"but they [top brass] seem to go on from saying that losses are unavoidable, to thinking that they're necessary, and from that, to thinking that they don't matter."

Frederic Manning, from The Middle Parts of Fortune
Sounds like a quote that would have been right at home in a 1957 Kirk Douglas movie I saw this week: Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory.
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