"In war there are none but particular cases; everything has there an individual nature; nothing ever repeats itself. In the first place, the data of a military problem are but seldom certain; they are never final . Everything is in a constant state of change and reshaping."

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Source : Ferdinand Foch, Alphonse Grasset (1920). “Precepts and Judgments”

Ferdinand Foch

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“I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kate Walsh from Mar 18, 2013
“Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.”
“I don't like government, it's just that simple.”
“Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.”

Source : B. Alan Wallace (2014). “Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity”, p.30, Columbia University Press
“Whether railroads or electricity or the Internet, there is always some sense that this is the new, redemptive platform - that finally, finally, we've found the platform that will allow us all to lead a democratic, global existence, where all problems will be solved. And the idea that the old platform becomes obsolete, "this kills that," and so on, also often accompanies the advent of a new technology. The digital platform is no exception.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.”
“I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.”
“The most amusing thing about a pantomime horse is the necessity of having to shoot it twice.”

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