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  • Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange.
    If we accept them we will never win.
    Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic,
    We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

    "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 1. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.