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  2. George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army - Wikipedia

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    An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, and fights as a team. This individual hero stuff is bullshit. The bilious bastards who write that stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real battle than they do about fucking. Now we have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit and the best men in the world.

  3. Philosophical pessimism - Wikipedia

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    Mainländer's scientific pessimism builds on the foundations laid by Schopenhauer, yet he diverges from them by emphasizing that a "true philosophy" must be grounded in immanent or empirical reality, thus rejecting any appeal to transcendent or spiritual realms (such as Schopenhauer's view that there is one unifying Will in reality, which ...

  4. History of philosophical pessimism - Wikipedia

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    The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

  5. List of philosophical pessimists - Wikipedia

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    Image Name Date of birth Date of death Nationality Julius Bahnsen [1] [2]: 30 March 1830: 7 December 1881: German Ernest Becker [3]: 27 September 1924: 6 March 1974

  6. Pessimism - Wikipedia

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    Pessimism is a mental attitude in which an undesirable outcome is anticipated from a given situation. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life in general. Pessimists tend to focus on the negatives of life in general.

  7. Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Wikipedia

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    The name stems from the specific line in the speech, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few", referring to the ongoing efforts of the Royal Air Force and other Allied aircrew who were fighting in the Battle of Britain, the pivotal air battle with the German Luftwaffe. [2]

  8. Surprising Stars Who've Never Won a GRAMMY: Nicki Minaj ... - AOL

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    Nicki Minaj (12 Nominations) The "Chun-Li" rapper has been nominated for a total of 12 GRAMMYs, including two this year for Best Rap Song ("Barbie World" featuring Ice Spice and Aqua) and Best ...

  9. Military victories against the odds - Wikipedia

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    Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded to the combatants, it was the largest number of Victoria cross medals awarded by the British Government at any one battle. [26] Despite being heavily outnumbered, the British lost only 17 dead to 351 Zulus. [12] [27] The event has become widely known as a battle where an underdog won against overwhelming ...