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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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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Great interests demand great safeguards.
— Thomas Francis Meagher
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So long as we mayhavean independent Judiciary, the great interests of the people will be safe.
— John Rutledge
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The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to…
— Queen Victoria
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An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity…
— John Quincy Adams
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I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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