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The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.


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JAMES ELLROY From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an...
WILLIAM JAMES Better luck next time they say, or you win some you lose some, I guess it's something like that.
JAMES DYE Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
JAMES BARRIE You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will f...
JAMES ALLEN Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things ...
JAMES ALLEN You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.
JAMES AGEE There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It i...
JAMES BRYCE The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex bu...
JAMES AGATE Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
JAMES BARRIE One does not become a guru by accident.
JAMES FENTON They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
CAPTAIN JAMES It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moment...
ALICE JAMES A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
JAMES FEIBLEMAN You just stood there screaming
Fearing no one was listening to you
They say the empty can ratt...
JAMES HETFIELD There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.
JAMES THURBER Intelligence: I was asked tonight why I refuse to have truck with intellectuals after business hours...
JAMES AGATE Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
JAMES BALDWIN It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the inde...
JAMES BALDWIN The term bail-out is deceptive. They have people come up with euphenisms to hide reality
JAMES DYE