"Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities."

-- Sun Tzu

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“Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“Nothing is more dastardly than to act with bravado toward God.”
“Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”
“Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.”
“Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.”
“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”
“I'm ever curious about the world.”
“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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