"The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.”
“I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.”
“Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.”
“Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war - this is pest control! Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you? Dalek Sec: Four. Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks? Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect. Cyber Leader: What is that? Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.”
“The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.”
“There are a couple of people in the world who can really program in C or FÃ˜RTRAN. They write more code in less time than it takes for other programmers. Most programmers aren't that good. The problem is that those few programmers who crank out code aren't interested in maintaining it.”
“The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen that in my life. Pretty special young man. I don't think we could have gathered ourselves - I know I couldn't have - if Kevin didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game,' I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't.”
“I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.”

Source : "The Stone Age: Angie Stone on her new album, fiance and D'Angelo". "Essence" Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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