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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Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be.
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I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line.
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I don't need to pat myself on the back until my arm breaks. I don't need any of that.
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Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
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I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
