"It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Strong Quotes #Military Quotes #War Quotes

“I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.”
“One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories, metaphysical views, fairy tales, instead of the customary pair theory/observation. This impression would certainly be mistaken. My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is rather to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.23, Verso
“It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.”
“Evilâ€¦doesnâ€™t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to â€œthe Christian majorityâ€™sâ€ private liking.”
“God bless the roots! Body and soul are one.”
“A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand.”
“I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.”
“We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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