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This high proportion of history's decisive campaigns, the significance of which is enhanced by the comparative rarity of the direct approach, enforces the conclusion that…

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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and…
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While…
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to…
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to…
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in…
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming…
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to…
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs…
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces…
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in…

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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature… — Nicolas Cage
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana
From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It… — Noam Chomsky
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural… — Karl Popper
I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the… — Thomas Jefferson
The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous. — Unknown Author
Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation… — Unknown Author
Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. — Margaret Drabble
It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true… — Anthony Storr

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