B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes
The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.
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'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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My mother was always supportive.
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Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through.
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As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
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You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
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High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
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The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.
