"Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me."

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Source : Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

Martin Van Creveld

#Years Quotes #Two Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Eight years was awesome and I was famous and I was powerful.”
“If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.”
“The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.”
“Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.”
“People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.”

Source : "Neil Kinnock: 'This election is about now and the future'". Interview with David Hare, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.
“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador
“If you want to watch two guys knock hell out of each other, watch us.”
“To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.”

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