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Quote Origin: The Person Who is Clever and Lazy Qualifies for the Highest Leadership Posts

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Helmuth von Moltke the Elder? Erich von Manstein? Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord? Douglas MacArthur? Frederick the Great? Apocryphal?

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