"Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war."

-- Carl von Clausewitz

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“I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity.”
“If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.”
“I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.”
“God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.”
“I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.”
“There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.”

Source : Peter V. Brett (2009). “The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle”, p.28, Del Rey
“Does the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?”
“I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years”

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