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Martin Van Creveld Quotes

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Martin Van Creveld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Strong Fighting Idiot You Weak Him

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

You Question Little Something Clear

I experimented with every kind of class possible - yoga, spin, Pilates, rowing - but it was all haphazard, cobbled together by trial and error.

Together Kind Class Possible Rowing

I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.

Time Thinking Friends Sometimes Way

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Reward Person Become Get Highest

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Work Education Responsibility You

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

Life Road You Way Changed Your

The Tunisian revolution left every Arab dictator in fear; Egypt's toppling of Mubarak left them terrified - even one of the U.S.' best allies in the region could fall.

Fear Best Revolution Fall Egypt

Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see.

Innovation Talent Pool Engineers New

I talk to my parents a couple of times a week. I talk to my daughters every day.

Denise Morrison

Day Parents Week Every Day Talk

It's funny; I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.

Funny Car Sports World Think Fish

So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.

Family Tradition Down Like Our

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

Alone Me Writing Better Body First

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