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In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender’s hold by upsetting his balance.
B. H. LIDDELL HART

History Power War
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
NOAM CHOMSKY

Current Facility History Leisure Lie Minority Present Training Truth
For me, why would a Jew want to go anywhere in history ever? I’m only going to have to run.
ADAM PALLY

Anywhere Ever History Jew Run Running Want
I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
P. J. O'ROURKE

Event Favour Fiction Grace History Kind Please Write
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I’m not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
P. J. O'ROURKE

Draw Exceptional Happiness History Human Island Litle Peace Point Prosperity Sure
The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
RAVI ZACHARIAS

Correct Definition History
The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

History Justice World
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU

All Damage Done Earth History Human Mankind More Previous Probably
I’ve always considered Christ to be one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of humanity.
FIDEL CASTRO

Greatness History Humanity Myself Revolution
History is the memory of States.
HENRY KISSINGER

History Memories
In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
ADRIENNE RICH

Aquifer Collective History Rupture Secret Spiritual Voice
Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb… he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Country Firmer History Imprint Left Name People Person Time
I’ve always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I’ve always said is the best coach in the history of the league.
TOM BRADY

Best History Leadership Myself Play Privilege Team
New York is a completely different culture to Montgomery, Alabama.
CLAUDETTE COLVIN

Culture Different History
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
GASTON BACHELARD

Help History Liberty Name Original Ourselves Return Solitude Spiritual
The only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUND

History Known
We shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN

Discover God History Man Second Shall Time
The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It’s almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.
KEITH RICHARDS

History Ideas Myself Retirement
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
SIVANANDA

History Human Intellectual Noble Teaching World
Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
ABERJHANI

Asunder History Horror Inside Lesson Shredded World
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
GOLDA MEIR

Conventional Deal History People Public Story
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
GERTRUDE STEIN

History Perspective Repeat
[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
BENITO MUSSOLINI

Age Fuhrer History Lonely Make Men One Test Those
A family shares hardships and a connected history.
KAMALA HARRIS

Connection Family History
I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURST

Drive Engine Everything History Plot Really Use Write
So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.
ALAN BENNETT

Dozen Eventually Experience Extent Half History Own Try
History was easy, but I don’t know about the Calculus. It seemed like it was making sense, so that probably means I failed.
STEPHENIE MEYER

Easy Failure History Myself

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