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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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People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.
— Moliere
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The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This…
— John Rosemond
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The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses the louses.
— Yvonne De Carlo
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Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are…
— Emma Goldman
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In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.
— Isabelle Adjani
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Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but…
— John Dobbin
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What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they…
— Peter Garrett
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They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.
— Don McLean
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It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long)…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and…
— Marc Rotenberg
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Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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