"The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war."

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Source : Martin Van Creveld (2010). “Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

Martin Van Creveld

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“Monastic brotherhood, upon rock Aerial.”
“I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.”
“A samurai must remain calm at all times even in the face of danger.”
“What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.46, Penguin
“In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.”
“It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.”
“The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.”
“I have written some stories about weakness. I believe that punishment for a weak man is doubled. So when I feel upset, I always try to fool myself and say to myself, I have to be patient because I have a goal to reach.”

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