"The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

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“Sometimes people stay in the same cycle their entire life, but you can still mature within it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.”

Source : Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2013). “The Love Dare Day by Day, Gift Edition: A Year of Devotions for Couples”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group
“The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.”
“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.”
“No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.”

Source : Lorrie Moore (2010). “The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore”, p.95, Faber & Faber
“Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.”
“A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.”
“Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.”

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