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Martin Van Creveld Quotes

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.

Martin Van Creveld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: israeli
Birth: March 5, 1946

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Education Yourself School Gun Learn

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Donald Hall

Road Generation Sometimes Living

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Bob Riley

Hero Create Hard Heroes Hard Times

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

Annie Dillard

Love Alone Best People Looking Same

I'm one Pia Zadora, the same way all the time. That's why I'm happy. It took me a long time to get to the point where could be myself all the time.

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Time Myself Happy Me Long Long Time

I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Never Storytelling Been Confusing

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Richard Powers

Technology Reach Goal Invisible Been