"In any problem where an opposing force exists and cannot be regulated, one must foresee and provide for alternative courses. Adaptability is the law which governs survival in war as in life ... To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it; the best chance of overcoming such obstruction is to have a plan that can be easily varied to fit the circumstances met."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

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“I think I think I am Superwoman sometimes but I am not.”
“Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important.”
“I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be happy. Instead there's this bizarre notion the government propounds that we should all run around selfishly acquiring money. I just don't understand that.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.
“Depression means that you have no point of view.”
“The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The Milky Way swooped diagonally across the heavens, reminding me of my utter insignificance, and at the same time my complete interconnection with everything. I was just a tiny speck of consciousness, and yet I was consciousness itself.”
“My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.”
“Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.”

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