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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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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People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?
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I'm always happy for work and feel absolutely lucky to be on something that has continued for a couple of seasons.
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So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.
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My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either.
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Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
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Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
