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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Aim Decisive Determination Force Great Pursue

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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Above All Things Courage First Quality Things Warrior

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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Backbone Secrecy Speed Surprise

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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Action Fog Grotesque Kind Larger Like Make Moonlight Often Place Really Seem Speak Takes Tends Than Things Twilight Which

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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Although Always Certainty Clarity Fascinating Finds Intellect Longs Nature Often Our Uncertainty

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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Aims Ambition Audacity Filled He High His Leader Obstacles Reach Spite Strength Them Will

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War is the continuation of politics by other means.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Continuation Means Other Politics War

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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Courage Darkest Even Faint First Follow Hour Indispensable Inner Intellect Lead Leads Light May Qualities Second Some Truth Two Wherever Which

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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Act Action Better Err Even Hesitate Past Quickly Than Time Until

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Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

~Carl Von Clausewitz

Topics: Difficult Everything Simple Simplest Thing Very War

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Soldier

Born: June 1st, 1780

Died: November 16th, 1831

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