"In tactics, action is the governing rule of war."

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Source : Ferdinand Foch (1920). “The Principles of War”

Ferdinand Foch

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Tactics Quotes

“the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.”
“I learned I'm not a good executive. I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you want to know why Lisp doesn't win around you, find a mirror.”
“I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different.”
“Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.”
“He who stands like a pilar dies in battle. He who bends like a reed is triumphant!”
“Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution to serve the public interest. The traditional balance between those two has become destabilized. Economic reality has taken over.”
“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”

Source : Attributed to Rommel‎'s "Infanterie Greift An" ("Infantry Attacks") (1937), in "World War II: The Definitive Visual History: from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb" by Richard Holmes, p. 128, 2009.

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