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- Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those…
- In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the…
- For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.
- The predominance of moral factors in all military decisions. On them constantly turns the issue of war and battle. In the history of war they…
- It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist…
- The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast,…
- The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential…
- To foster the people's willing spirit is often as important as to possess the more concrete forms of power.
- It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a…
- The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic…
- Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by…
- In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
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