Arthur Currie quotes

Arthur Currie quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.”
-- Arthur Currie

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“Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.”

Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
“Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.”
“War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.”
“BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.”
“Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.”
“I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.”
“Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.”
“The thorough bred against a clamor, or rather the Porsche vs. the pickup truck.”
“Experience is a thorough teacher ...”

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1864). “Cousin Maude and Rosamond”, p.64
“Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.”

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