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14 Jun 20 UTC	Spring, 1901: (General Moylgomery): "The key to Springfield has always been Elm St. The Greeks knew it, the Carthaginians knew it, now you know it." - Herman Hermann
14 Jun 20 UTC	Spring, 1901: "In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them." - Napoleon Bonaparte
15 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1901: "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - George S. Patton
16 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1901: GameMaster: Game was extended due to at least 1 member failing to enter orders and having an excused missed turn available. This has un-readied all orders.
17 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1901: "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." - Sun Tzu
19 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1902: "Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? … He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." — Gen. Jack D. Ripper
19 Jun 20 UTC	Spring, 1903: "An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure." — Genghis Khan
20 Jun 20 UTC	Spring, 1903: "I am not afraid of a army of lion led by a sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion." — Alexander The Great
20 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1903: “Get strapped or get clapped.” - Sun Tzu
21 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1903: “Common sense is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.” ― John Lewis Gaddis
22 Jun 20 UTC	Spring, 1904: "If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it." ― Julius Caesar
23 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1904: "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. in a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." ― Mark Zuckerberg (human man)
24 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1904: "Ferdinando [King of Naples] resolv’d, in good Earnest, to try how to compromise the Affair of the Castles; being persuaded, that that when this Obstacle was remov'd, Matters would easily return into the fame peaceable Channel. But by removing the Causes, the Effects that sprung from them are not always remov'd. For, as it frequently happens, that Resolutions taken out of Fear seldom appear sufficient to the Fearful." ― Francesco Guicciardini
24 Jun 20 UTC	Spring, 1905: "There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." ― Niccolò Machiavelli
25 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1905: "Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia." ― George Orwell
26 Jun 20 UTC	Spring, 1906: "If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests." ― Alexander The Great
28 Jun 20 UTC	Autumn, 1906: "[Real courage] is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." ― Harper Lee
01 Jul 20 UTC	Autumn, 1907: “Blood, sweat and respect. First two you give, last one you earn.” ― Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
02 Jul 20 UTC	Autumn, 1907: "What, is the old king dead? As nail in door." ― William Shakespeare. Henry IV, Part II, Act V, scene 3.
03 Jul 20 UTC	Spring, 1908: “I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one.” - Tony Montana