"In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has not to overcome resistance, except from nature. Its purpose is to diminish the possibility of resistance, and it seeks to fulfil this purpose by exploiting the elements of movement and surprise."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Lying Quotes #Military Quotes #War Quotes

“Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.”
“In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.”
“Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.”

Source : Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”
“Courage is the decision to fly straight into the flame while knowing the consequences.”
“A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.”
“I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.”
“Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing”
“Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.”

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