"Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle"

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Source : Chip Heath, Dan Heath (2008). “Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck”, p.26, Random House

Chip Heath

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“You've travelled through life together Enjoying years of wedded bliss We congratulate you on reaching And we toast your happiness”
“To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.”

Source : "K'Naan On Cheapening His Music For The Money". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 10, 2012.
“If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.”

Source : Number 200 statement from the 282 provisions to the fees due to Medical Practitioners in the Code of Hammurabi
“Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.”
“Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.”
“For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.”
“Not all information is beneficial.”
“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”

Source : Jacob Burckhardt (2012). “Judgements on History and Historians”, p.232, Routledge

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