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"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."

"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous."

"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."
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"Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me."

"In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer."

"If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot."

"As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide."

"Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources."
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