"Decapitation is a fanciful strategy."

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Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.126, W. W. Norton & Company

John Mearsheimer

#Strategy Quotes

“I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.”
“What makes you push the shutter has to do with seeking a kind of perfection, a harmony in the world. You are instinctively aware it's there, but you've got to be completely alert and quick and so deeply awake that it moves you.”
“The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.”
“You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world”

Source : Charles William Eliot (1926). “Charles W. Eliot: the man and his beliefs”
“Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.”

Source : "A Queer and Joyful Noise" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.
“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
“The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.”

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