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The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

— Samuel Youd

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You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

Before you have faith you must believe, and before you believe there must be evidence of some sort to persuade the mind. Faith is remembering that evidence and holding to it against all that seems to challenge or contradict it.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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