"A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.”
“Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.”
“I believe the more prepared you are physically, the better prepared you are mentally and the more you can then cope. Mentally you have to focus on the job in hand 100%.”
“To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.5, Macmillan
“I'm a wicked ping-pong player.”
“I don't just want to be successful I want to have fun.”
“I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.”
“I shall be but a shrimp of an author.”

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