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Strategie ist die Kunst, Ziele und Mittel in Einklang zu bringen.
Clausewitz

Strategy is the art to bring aims and ressources into balance.

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@divegeester said
“Like one who grabs a stray dog by the ears is someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own”

Proverbs.
Number, please?

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@suzianne said
Number, please?
Proverbs 26,17

And the mandatory quote:

Those who have a "Why" to live, can bear with almost any "How".
― Viktor E. Frankl —
Man's Search for Meaning

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@suzianne said
Number, please?
“Like one who grabs a stray dog by the ears is someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own.
Like a maniac shooting flaming arrows of death is one who deceives their neighbor and says, “I was only joking!”

Proverbs 26:17-19 New International Version (NIV)

(Edit: Ah, thanks Ponderable)

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“Some day, we will all die, Snoopy.
True, but on all the other days, we will not.”
― Charles M. Schulz

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Janet decided she owned the world's worst thesaurus.

Not only was it terrible,it was terrible.
_Janet

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“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” - Agatha Christie

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It was better when it was worse.

Italian proverb.

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Make sure the girl sitting in the passenger seat of your Porche,is the same girl that would be sitting next to you at the bus stop if your life had turned out differently.

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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”

- Henry Ford -

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The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

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Be curious, not judgemental.

Walt Whitman (attributed) or anonymous

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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.”
― Rollo May

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"Hate is not the opposite of love, apathy is.
- Rollo May

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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

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