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Martin Van Creveld Quotes: The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
         

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.


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War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.

War is the greatest fun man can have with his pants on.



The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.



A world without war is not in the cards.

A world without war is not in the cards.



We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.

We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets of our air force.



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.

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.



I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.



Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.



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.

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.



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

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



Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.

Obviously, we don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons and I don't know if they're developing them, but if they're not developing them, they're crazy.





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And yet he found comfort in the absence of telling.



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We too can repair our cracks with goldAnd glow again.Crazed by life, More beautiful than ever before.



The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.



We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.



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I worked in fashion for ten years, and like anyone in the fashion industry, even if you leave, you never leave fashion behind.



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I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.



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Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.



Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.

Fundamentalists can't take a joke. Ever. They want us to blindly obey, parrot everything they do, and believe in their dogmas.



We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.

We live in an age where everyone is so opinionated about everything in general in life, especially their expertise or their personal knowledge of anything that they're commenting on.




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