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The 3 Requisites for Success - Ruthless, Relentless, Remorseless (The 3 R's)

— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher Memories (1919)

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Also The World Crisis, Vol 1, 1911-14 (1923), Churchill, Thornton Butterworth (London), p. 73.

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