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Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.
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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A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
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The very nature of interactions is bound to make it unpredictable.
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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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