B. H. Liddell Hart Quotes
With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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All my books are optimistic!
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.
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When you go a week without seeing a human face, that does something to you.
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
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It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.
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If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
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I do oppose repealing Obamacare, because it's working for growing numbers of previously uninsured Americans.
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
