"Everyone has its superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished."
Ulysses S. Grant
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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To characterize this attitude as superstition is either the attempt to hide butal behaviour or to handle it by euphemism.
ReplyDeleteGrant was a successful army commander during the American civil war and deserved presidency due to its merits in war battles. There he got his nickname “unconditional surrender”.