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Art Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
- The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly…
- In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
- Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and…
- Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this…
- Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is…
- Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must…
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