German General Staff/chiefs of The Prussian General Staff 1808-1871

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    “The German language “speaks Being,” while all the others merely “speak of Being.””
    —Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

    “The general so likes your music, that he desires you for love’s sake to make no more noise with it.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
    For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine,
    For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve,
    For the next matrons or drudges they serve,
    For the next doth crave a staff for a stay,
    For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
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    ““Hear me,” he said to the white commander. “I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. Our chiefs are dead; the little children are freezing. My people have no blankets, no food. From where the sun stands, I will fight no more forever.””
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