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He meticulously cultivated new ideas and distilled them into words. “He walked much and contemplated,” wrote his contemporary John Aubrey, “and he had in the head of his Staffe a pen and inke-horn, carried always a Note-book in his pocket,
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“I hold at your neck the gom jabbar,” she said. “The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It’s a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don’t pull away or you’ll feel that poison.”
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“Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
“The president proceeded to lecture and insult the entire group about how they didn’t know anything when it came to defense or national security. It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“In Bannon’s evaluation, Trump was Archie Bunker, but a really focused Archie Bunker.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“Though a profound student of Clausewitz, Foch did not, like Clausewitz’s German successors, believe in a foolproof schedule of battle worked out in advance. Rather he taught the necessity of perpetual adaptability and improvisation to fit circumstances. “Regulations,” he would say, “are all very well for drill but in the hour of danger they are no more use.… You have to learn to think.” To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance.”
― The Guns of August
― The Guns of August
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