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“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the…

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America loves a winner, and will not tolerate a loser, this is why America has never, and will never, lose a war.

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We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss…

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Successful generals make plans to fit circumstances, but do not try to create circumstances to fit plans.

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There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

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In the space of two days I had evolved two plans, wholly distinct, both of which were equally feasible. The point I am trying…

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The leader must be an actor.

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Most battles are won before they are ever fought.

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Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.

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Battle... brings out all that is best.

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Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get…

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…

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Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is…

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I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity…

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Right before the pandemic, 'Past Lives' came across to me as something to read and possibly put myself on tape for.

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I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the…

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Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply…

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I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a second. It's very instinctive. What you do is a fraction of a second, it's there and it's not there. But in this fraction of a second comes your past, comes your future, comes your relation with…

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