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+ | : Gall’s Law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” | ||
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+ | : "The Information Super Highway is still a dirt road in some places" | ||
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+ | :: "Years ago I first saw a poster of Murphy' | ||
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+ | :: "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." | ||
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+ | :: "If You Want to Gather Honey Don't Kick Over the Beehive" | ||
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+ | :: "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." | ||
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+ | :: "Why should you and I?" | ||
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+ | :: "There are three kinds of lies,” “lies, damned lies and statistics.” | ||
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+ | :: "THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY UNDER HIGH HEAVEN TO GET ANYBODY TO do anything. Did you ever think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it." | ||
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+ | :: "The deepest urge in human nature is "the desire to be important" | ||
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+ | :: "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” | ||
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+ | <h2> The Art of War - Sun Tzu</ | ||
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+ | :: Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. | ||
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+ | :: Seeing what other do no see is called brilliance, knowing what others do not know is called genius. Brilliant geniuses win first. | ||
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+ | :: A military operation is like a fire, if it is not stopped, it will burn itself out. | ||
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+ | :: Courage without humaneness is like knowing how to reap but not how to sow. | ||
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+ | :: Be careful in the beginning, and you have no trouble in the end. | ||
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+ | :: Anger can revert to joy, wrath can revert to delight, but a nation destroyed cannot be restored to existence, and the dead cannot be restored to life. | ||
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+ | :: Leadership is a matter of intelligence, | ||
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+ | :: When people deserve reward, this should be duly noted even if you personally detest them. When people deserve punishment, this should not be forgone even if they are close to you. | ||
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+ | :: Without deception you cannot carry out strategy, without strategy you cannot control the opponent. | ||
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+ | :: Deception is for the purpose of seeking victory over an enemy; to command a group requires truthfulness. | ||
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+ | :: Therefore when you induce others to constuct a formation while you yourself are formless, then you are concentrated while the opponent is divided. | ||
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+ | :: So a military force has no constant formation. water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius. | ||
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+ | :: Those who come in a conciliatory manner want to rest. | ||
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+ | :: When forces angrily confront you but delay engagement , yet do not leave, it is imperative to watch them carefully. | ||
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+ | ::The individualist without strategy who takes opponents lightly will inevitably become the captive of others. | ||
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+ | <h2> Proverbs</ | ||
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+ | :: "A man without a smiling face must not open a shop" | ||
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+ | :: "A horse can be lead to water. A pencil must be lead." | ||
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+ | :: "An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living." | ||
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+ | :: "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." | ||
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+ | :: "Life once wrecked all her dream ships on the sharp rocks of reality, but in the sunny, fantasy isles of insanity, all her barkentines race into port with canvas billowing and winds singing through the masts." | ||
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+ | :: "cat spelled backwards does not spell god" | ||
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+ | :: "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." | ||
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+ | :: "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." | ||
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+ | :: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." | ||
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+ | :: "If you see a bomb technician running, try to keep up with him." | ||
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+ | :: "Any ship can be a minesweeper... once." | ||
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+ | :: "No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection." | ||
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+ | :: "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." | ||
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+ | :: "The purpose of life is to fight maturity." | ||
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+ | :: “That’s not right… that’s not even wrong!” | ||
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