If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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