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...three divisions and putting Walker in charge of it. "Johnnie" Walker's colleagues do not remember that he ever argued with anything Patton ever said, or, in fact, answered anything to a Patton order except "Yes, sir." A military fundamentalist, Walker believes wholeheartedly in the ancient military dictum that a man must learn to obey orders before he can give them. Of Patton's many commendations, Walker prized this one the most: "Of all the corps I have commanded, yours has always been the most eager to attack and the most reasonable and cooperative...
...much do these "ethnic groups" differ in intelligence? Not much, if at all, says the UNESCO report. "Given similar degrees of cultural opportunity to realize their potentialities, the average achievement of each ethnic group is about the same. The scientific investigations of recent years fully support the dictum of Confucius [551-478 B.C.]: 'Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart...
...Dictum. In Cincinnati, Judge Charles S. Bell paused in the course of hearing a divorce suit to deliver a parenthetical opinion: it is a serious mistake for any man to hand over his entire paycheck to his wife...
...discuss books, literary currents, social questions, but fundamentally their concern is with people. They are full of subtle portraits, penetrating yet sympathetic, always economically drawn. The characters, one sometimes feels, are created with too much sympathy, but they are never unreal. In their creation, Mrs. Woolf has followed her dictum about Mrs. Brown; "She is an old lady of unlimited capacity and infinite variety . . . the things she says and the things she does and her eyes and her nose and her speech and her silence have an overwhelming fascination, for she is, of course, the spirit we live by, life...
...floods' full glare, strange specimens came sharply into public view, squirmed uncomfortably in the light, waited for the word to drop back into their own shadowy world. It was a world of conspiracy and secrecy, of Communist and informer, where the law was and is Lenin's dictum: it is necessary to "resort to all sorts of schemes and stratagems, employ illegitimate methods, conceal the truth...