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“Well, it was really very pleasant to see how things lazily adapted themselves to purposes. Here was this Mr Gridley, a man of a…

— Charles Dickens

“Joliffe, watching him over the rim of his own bowl, felt for his discontent. In his own life there were other things he could…

— Margaret Frazer

“Strategies and formations were nice, but they were nothing if the soldiers didn’t know how to handle themselves in battle.”

— Orson Scott Card

“...[T]he Normans, with the usual policy of conquerors, were jealous of permitting to the vanquished Saxons the possession or the use of swords and…

— Walter Scott

“A moment later the scowling face of Admiral Jellico appeared on the screen. He looked as ill-humored as ever. Privately, Calhoun felt that somebody…

— Peter David

“If he had wished, he could have annexed Denmark; and ended a thousand years of war and history. But Charles had no weaknesses; now…

— William Bolitho

“In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack--the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an…

— sun tzu

“Arthur Jelliby was a very nice young man, which was perhaps the reason why he had never made much of a politician.”

— Stefan Bachmann

“He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by…

— Terry Pratchett

“He analyses every strategy and asks: "what would I do if I had to fight myself?" He thus discover his weak points.”

— Paulo Coelho

“ “Clever battle strategy often resembles madness. Knowing the difference … ah, well, the victors have the privilege of defining that, do they not?”…

— Elisa Braden

“The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point…

— Napoleon Bonaparte