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• If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
  -- Sun Tzu...
• He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. -- Chinese proverb
• CORPORAL, n. A man who occupies the lowest rung of the military ladder.
  Fiercely the battle raged and, sad to tell, Our corporal heroically fell!...
• He who lives out his days has had a long life. -- Lao Tzu
• Beware, you who seek first and final principles, for you are trampling the garden of an angry God and he awaits you just beyond the last theorem.
  -- Sister Miriam Godwinson, "But for the Grace of God...
• Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system. -- Napoleo
• I should have remembered that was Andrew Jackson who said that, since he got his nickname "Stonewall" by vetoing bills passed by Congress.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle, confusing Andrew Jackson with Confederate General Thomas J....
• A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
  He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it....
• Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu