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War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
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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...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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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
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The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.
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Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
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