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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Carl von Clausewitz
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Carl von Clausewitz
Age: 51 †
Born: 1780
Born: June 1
Died: 1831
Died: November 16
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Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.
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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
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There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
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Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
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Close combat, man to man, is plainly to be regarded as the real basis of combat.
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The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
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...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
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Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective but such cases are rare.
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Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.
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