Sublime
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Strategy requires a sense of the whole that reveals the significance of respective parts.
John Lewis Gaddis • On Grand Strategy
“We must learn the fine arts of war and independence so that our children can learn architecture and engineering so that their children may learn the fine arts and painting” (John Quincy Adams).
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
“We must learn the fine arts of war and independence so that our children can learn architecture and engineering so that their children may learn the fine arts and painting” (John Quincy Adams).
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
Brilliant schemes of aggression, if flawed, entail attrition as if by an inexorable reactive law.
John Keegan • The First World War
was better to hear the unhappy details of such a life from the lips of the man who had led it rather than from someone else. Mothers often portrayed fathers in too flattering a light. Obituaries rarely told the whole story, especially when their subjects led classified lives.
Daniel Silva • The Black Widow
The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
