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B. H. Liddell Hart has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While…
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The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to…
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The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to…
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Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in…
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A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden and overwhelming…
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to…
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The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs…
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The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
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Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces…
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In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
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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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The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
— Maurice Barres
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Does the tounge hanging out help his balance?
— Roddy Piper
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Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
— Pope John Paul II
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been…
— Henry L. Stimson
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There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single…
— Carl Jung
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He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
— Maxwell Maltz
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He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The worth of a man is according to his courage, his truthfulness is according to his balance of temper, his valour is…
— Hazrat Ali (as)
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