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• Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
• Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads…
• Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
• It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
• Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
• Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
• War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
• Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
• Politics is the womb in which war develops.
• All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make…
• If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will…
• The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

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