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"If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic."
Anatoly Karpov
"If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic."
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"If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future."
Lionel Suggs
"If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future."
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"It was a trap. It was so obviously a trap.Darquesse smiled."
Derek Landy
"It was a trap. It was so obviously a trap.Darquesse smiled."
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"Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures."
Carlos Ghosn
"Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures."
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"If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna."
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"Observe and blend in," he stated in his cool, unruffled voice. "Learn how to engage with humans, how to be human. Assimilate into their social structure and make them believe we are one of them."
Julie Kagawa
"Observe and blend in," he stated in his cool, unruffled voice. "Learn how to engage with humans, how to be human. Assimilate into their social structure and make them believe we are one of them."
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"Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."
Christopher Paolini
"Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention."
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"Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain."
Sun Tzu
"Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain."
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"When you initiate something creative and develop your policies that are solution based, you would then be able to flourish audiences who can heavily rely on your ideas for future success."
Saaif Alam
"When you initiate something creative and develop your policies that are solution based, you would then be able to flourish audiences who can heavily rely on your ideas for future success."
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"Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear, then he will be amenable to your will."
Sun Tzu
"Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear, then he will be amenable to your will."
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"One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics."
Paul Begala
"One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics."
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"There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first."
Bill Shoemaker
"There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first."
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"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."
Sun Tzu
"The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution."
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"Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing."
Merrie Spaeth
"Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing."
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"And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation."
Angela Davis
"And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation."
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"Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy."
Karl Rove
"Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy."
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"Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home."
Sun Tzu
"Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home."
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"You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals."
Sunday Adelaja
"You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals."
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"To nourish a tree you must get to the roots, the same is true if you must uproot it."
TemitOpe Ibrahim
"To nourish a tree you must get to the roots, the same is true if you must uproot it."
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"The wise warrior avoids the battle."
Sun Tzu
"The wise warrior avoids the battle."
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"And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy."
Jim Cantalupo
"And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy."
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"Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility."
Pearl Zhu
"Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility."
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"I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us."
Derek Landy
"I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us."
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"Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?"
Terry Pratchett
"Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?"
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"Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there."
John P. Kotter
"Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there."
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"It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses."
Morihei Ueshiba
"It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses."
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"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
Kent Conrad
"I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them."
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"Life challenges are unavoidable. We only need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Life challenges are unavoidable. We only need to develop new strategies overcome every challenge. And by faith we can graciously triumph."
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"If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks."
George Allen, Sr.
"If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks."
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"But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles."
Anil Kapoor
"But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles."
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"So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm."
John W. Thompson
"So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm."
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"I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy."
Bruce McCulloch
"I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy."
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"Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing."
John Hewson
"Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing."
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"Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose."
Robert Jordan
"Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he's nothing to lose."
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"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."
Hesiod
"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."
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"If you have to hit--hit low."
Tamora Pierce
"If you have to hit--hit low."
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"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy."
David Hackworth
"Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy."
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"Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand."
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"The key to online play really is multi-table tournaments."
Tim Page
"The key to online play really is multi-table tournaments."
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"Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go."
Mark Lawrence
"Sometimes the only option is to raise the stakes, to throw yourself the other way, to force your opponent further down the path they've chosen, further than they might want to go."
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"A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen."
Toba Beta
"A strategic victory seen as luck by laymen."
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"Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing."
Pearl Zhu
"Strategy and execution represent the two sides of one and the same thing."
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"When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy."
Timothy McVeigh
"When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy."
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"Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented."
Michael Porter
"Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented."
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"Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?"
Robert Jordan
"Do you know how to unite people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? No? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?"
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"These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess."
Kobe Bryant
"These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess."
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"Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination."
William S. Burroughs
"Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination."
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"The organization likes to do their dirty business where no one can see it."
Julie Kagawa
"The organization likes to do their dirty business where no one can see it."
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"Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future."
Tim Johnson
"Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future."
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"I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety."
John McEnroe
"I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety."
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