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"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
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"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
"Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle."
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."
"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
"Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."
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"I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history."
"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."
"War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support."
"Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard."
"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in."
"Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?"
"It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured, but at the same time too - in the eyes of the American people, in my judgment, it looked as if that somehow become more important than the main attack which was to fix the economy and get the Americans working again."
"Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it."
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