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Baldrick -> Quick Watson! I need a quote. (2/13/2005 6:16:28 AM) 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.[&o]

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Greyshaft -> Helmuth von Moltke (2/13/2005 6:55:19 AM) 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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Baldrick -> RE: Helmuth von Moltke (2/14/2005 5:06:09 AM) Thanks. That's the one I needed.

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