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Quick Watson! I need a quote. - 2/13/2005 6:16:28 AM

Baldrick

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Who gave us the chestnut about all our strategies going to pot in the face of the enemy? I need the real quote and the quoter.

My wife is doing a report on a forest fire and why it went wrong and she thought this would be perfect. me too.

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Helmuth von Moltke - 2/13/2005 6:55:19 AM

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According to http://www.askoxford.com/worldofwords/quotations/quotefrom/dogsofwar/?view=uk

...the words of the great 19th-century Prussian soldier Helmuth von Moltke suggests that rules will take you only so far: "No plan survives first contact with the enemy."

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RE: Helmuth von Moltke - 2/14/2005 5:06:09 AM

Baldrick

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Thanks. That's the one I needed.

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