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When the curtain rose on the next act of Moses' life, idealism was gone from the stage. In its place was an understanding that ideas—dreams— were useless without power to transform them into reality.
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“Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“Thus, to take a long and circuitous route, after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him, to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“He might love to read, but he was certainly no "greasy grind.”
― The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
― The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
“But, in the fight of his later career, what is most interesting is that when he realized that, because of the handicap of his religion, his brilliance and idealism would not take him to the top in the world of Yale, he made, within Yale, a world of his own, and a world, moreover, in which, in collegiate terms, he had power and influence.”
― The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
― The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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