Carl von Clausewitz Quotes
...the role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
Quotes to Explore
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
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I'm always looking for a good role.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.
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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
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As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.
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...the role of determination is to limit the agonies of doubt and the perils of hesitation when the motives for action are inadequate.
