Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
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Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.
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There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!
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It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the romantic movement - and I'm referring now exclusively to poetry - the emphasis has been on the individual imagination defined against, rather than in terms of, any orthodoxy.
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Try everything with an open heart, looking to fall in love.
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I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
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I record all night and sleep all day.
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In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
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O God, the God of formation, Ruler, strengthener of blood. Christ Jesus, that guards. Princes loud-proclaiming go their course For a decaying acquisition.
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May the countenance of Prydain be bright for my guidance. Sovereign of heaven, let my messages not be rejected.
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Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
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So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.
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I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
