"Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world."

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James Fallows

#Military Quotes #World Quotes #Assumption Quotes

“Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement”
“Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.”
“The great documentary subjects find you, you don't really search for them.”

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“Buckley and Vidal were both stand-ins for what was happening on the streets of Chicago and the streets of America. I mean, they're representing these two different camps that are at war in the streets. And they're at war with their words. And each was looking for a knockout.”
“Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.”
“The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.”
“I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me.”

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“If they watch me play, people will say I'm not into it or whatever. That's okay. I kind of like it. People don't know how much work I'm putting into it. They don't need to know.”

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