All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to … - Napoleon Bonaparte

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You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

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The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.

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Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

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If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion

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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

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Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

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