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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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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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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As an individual, I need space and can't be locked in a house with strangers. I would do 'Bigg Boss' if I get to co-host it with Salman Khan.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.
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A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.
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There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.
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Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
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With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.
