"Strategy is a system of expedients"

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Source : "Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings". Book by Daniel J. Hughe, p. 124, 1993.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

#Strategy Quotes

“The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.”

Source : Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”
“Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.”

Source : Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My Life and Some Letters”
“Unless it's out of the goodness of someone's heart, I don't like having things given to me for free. I like working hard for what I earn. It gives me a sense of gratitude, and that's the only way I can truly appreciate it.”
“I like to sneak a game or two of 'Madden' somewhere in between studying and sleeping; it helps me unwind and get my mind off football for a little bit.”
“And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.”
“I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.”
“Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.”
“In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.”

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