"Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him."

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Source : Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.422, Lulu.com

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“When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.”

Source : "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.
“I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.”

Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. March 2003.
“I don't watch a lot of reality TV.”
“Carbon is, as may easily be shown and as I shall explain in greater detail later, tetrabasic or tetratomic, that is 1 atom of carbon = C = 12 is equivalent to 4 At.H.”
“If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strike one note in terms of tone then you're going to be quite limited as a writer.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music”

Source : Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.13, Penguin
“What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails. Not only do the shareholders lose, but the entities lose.”
“They didn't really encourage my goofy, comedic side at Juilliard.”

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