War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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On the Soviet Union’s failure to form a united Balkan front against Hitler ; in The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance (1950) Chapter 20 (The Soviet Nemesis)Winston Churchill
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
Maria Edgeworth
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.
Sun Tzu
Je ne sais pas de lecture plus facile, plus attrayante, plus douce que celle d'un catalogue.
Anatole France
Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
Josh Billings
Concerning the blunders which had been made in our foreign policy public opinion is, as a rule, first enlightened when it is in a position to look back upon the history of a generation, and the Achivi qui plectuntur are not always immediately contemporary with the mistaken actions."
Otto von Bismarck
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