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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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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful…
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It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power…
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while…
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It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
— Arlen Specter
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To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as…
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In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and…
— Jean Dubuffet
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Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made…
— Peter Medawar
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Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in…
— Mary Astell
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I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But…
— Dick Schaap
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