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• Politics is the doctrine of the possible, the attainable. -- Otto von Bismark (1815-1898)
• With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
  -- Otto von Bismark...
• The whole of the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
  -- Prince Otto von Bismark, -- first chancellor of the German Empire, 1871-1890...
• Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
  -- Prince Otto von Bismark (1815-1898) quoted in Paul Lysons "The Gods in the Battle...
• There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God
  and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not....
• Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
• Hindsight is an exact science.