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• The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate… — David Brin
• No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force, — Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
• No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers — Steve Blank
• No campaign plan survives first contact with the enemy — Carl von Clausewitz
• So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts,… — Evan Parker
• First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien… — Sarah Zettel
• Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music… — Martin Freeman
• There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The… — Tim Harford
• Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke
• All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with… — Joshua Foer
• Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will… — C.S. Friedman

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