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Strategy Quotes
"Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
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"Always think at least two steps ahead [in everything, with everyone]."
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"The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense."
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"So we get a plan," I said. "Any suggestions?""Blow up the building," Kincaid said without looking up. "That works good for vampires. Then soak what's left in gasoline. Set it on fire. Then blow it all up again.""For future reference, I was sort of hoping for a suggestion that didn't sound like it came from that Bolshevik Muppet with all the dynamite."
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"If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on."
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"It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war."
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"Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted."
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"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared."
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"Make use of every friend- and every foe."
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"You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile."Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light."No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in.""And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena.""Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says."
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"Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him."
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"If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations."
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"To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence."
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"Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings."
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"Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots."
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"The trick is in genuinely appreciating the elements of apparent resistance while you are engaging them. Not to oppose or remove them as much as to creatively fold them into one's linear line of movement, exploiting them and making the necessary adjustments as you go."
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"Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham."
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"Have you positioned yourself to be reachable and accessible by those you seek to serve and make an impact on? Do they know where and how to find you, either physically or in the cyber realm? If they cannot reach you for whatever reason, then you have not done your homework, because you are supposed to have a strategy to reach them before they can even look for you! Otherwise someone else will meet them along the way as they look for you."
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"So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?''Exactly.'I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork."
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"Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive " learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead."
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"Also, the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do."
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"There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few."
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"One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger."
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"Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows, the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing."
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"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy."
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"It seems to be most leaders have more conventional wisdom, but creative leaders have better common sense."
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"If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory."
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