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Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by ashtonkem on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:46AM (#23080552)
> “Graveyards are full of indispensable men”.

— Charles de Gaulle.

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Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by pjc50 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @11:10AM (#23080846)
"I can make a new major in ten minutes, but a regiment of artillery is difficult to replace"

-- misattributed to Napoleon, on staff promotions

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Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by spaced-out on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:56AM (#23080675)
Wow, that's an awesome quote. I Googled it out of interest, and it wasn't coined by Charles de Gaulle though:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/21/graveyards-full/

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Re:We are complicit in our employer’s deeds by ashtonkem on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:59AM (#23080717)
Ah, that’s a shame. But hardly surprising, most iconic quotes seem to be fake.
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