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Martin Van Creveld Quotes

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Martin Van Creveld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Future Past Sun Will In The Past

Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?

Stone Who Knows Everybody Gandhi

I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.

Women Woman Down Go Want Chances

There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.

Culture You Go Strike Kind More

When Barack Obama was asked about his lack of executive experience in 2008, he pointed to his successful campaign as proof he could manage the presidency.

Experience Successful Presidency He

I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

Football Me Hair Fashion Makeup

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

People Solution Divided Agreement

Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.

Faith Feeling Listen Gut Intuition

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.

Life Dreams Women Dangerous Young

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

King Lose Temper Should Were Ah

I've been on the road since I was 15, in one way or another - on a bus, in a 15-passenger van, pulling a U-haul - so I would be lying if I said sometimes the miles and the road didn't get long. But it's always rewarding, that hour and a half every night you get to stand up there and see it all pay off and feel the love from that crowd.

Love Night Road Stand Up Stand You

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Life Hope Shadow Think Dream Act

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

Exist Kinds Autism Spectrum Many

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