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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
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O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.
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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Second State of the Union Address, 11-01-1962 -
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
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''When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea?'' O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying ''Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.''
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A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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A book is like a man: clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
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A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
Life and the student (1927)
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