"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force,"

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Source : "Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings" by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell, (p. 92), 1993.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

#Firsts Quotes #Force Quotes #Operations Quotes

“The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.”
“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”
“There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.”
“Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.”
“You are mine,â€ he rasped. â€œOnly ever mine. I accept all that you are, and we can be together.”
“There is a rhythm to the ending...”

Source : Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade
“Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in a blue that can be the wing of a bug or a thought. It makes our invisible visible.”

Source : Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”
“It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.”

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