A Quote by Sun Tzu
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Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.
A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.
There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided.
History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
The U.S. never lost a battle against North Vietnam, but it lost the war.
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