"A state attacked by another which renews an old claim rarely yields it without a war: it prefers to defend its territory, as is always more honorable. But it may be advantageous to take the offensive, instead of awaiting the attack on the frontiers."

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Source : Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.15, Courier Corporation

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#War Quotes #Yield Quotes #May Quotes

“My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it.”
“In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion... And we believe that we are entering a technological age in which we will be able to interact with the richness of living information--not merely in the passive way that we have become accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an ongoing process, bringing something to it through our interaction with it, and not simply receiving something from it by our connection to it.”

Source : "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".
“Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.”
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
“I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.”
“The name's Bond. James Omar Bond.”
“It was accountability that Nixon feared.”

Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
“I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.”

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