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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads…
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make…
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will…
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader,…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The occultist is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or…
— Unknown Author
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For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a…
— Albert Einstein
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I capture reality, never pose it. But once captured, is it still reality? I've always tried to play with the false impression…
— Richard Kalvar
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It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when…
— Oscar Wilde
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The truth is more important than a false impression because eventually the false impression will help revel the truth
— Frank Matobo
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