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- The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General G. C. Patton
- War is based on deception.
- Sun-Tzu (~400 BC)
- To secure peace is to prepare for war.
- Carl von Clausewitz
- It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.
- William Arthur Ward
- May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
- Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
- Ted Morgan
- Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.
- David Armistead
- The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
- Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young
- Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.
- Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen
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