Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
Carl von Clausewitz
On War
In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
Carl von Clausewitz
Just remember the words of the great philosophers:
Socrates: "To be is to do"
Plato: "To do is to be"
Frank Sinatra: "Do be do be do."
The first was also used by Sartre. The second by Nietzsche. The combination by Vonnegut and again by Charles Schultz. I saw it in a crossword puzzle.
"I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse
"Truth and Falsehood were bathing. Falsehood came out of the water first and dressed herself in Truth's clothes. Truth, unwilling to put on the garments of Falsehood, went naked."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
"Sometimes your ahead sometimes your behind, the race is long and in the end, its only with yourself."
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