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..... being convinced that what counts is to put precision into practice, rather than to talk about it.
Livio Catullo Stecchini from an appendix in Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins
 

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..... being convinced that what counts is to put precision into practice, rather than to talk about it.
Livio Catullo Stecchini from an appendix in Secrets of the Great Pyramid by Peter Tompkins
Great book and Stecchini's appendix is fascinating. He was referring to his research into ancient weights and measures but I think it applies to many things, ASL included.
 

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"Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is dfficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war."
—Carl von Clausewitz
 

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"Positions are seldom lost because they have been destroyed, but almost invariably because the leader has decided in his own mind that the position cannot be held."
—A. A. Vandegrift
 

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"Nine-tenths of tactics are certain and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practicing the stroke so often that at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex."
—T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")
 

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Ahh...
My ASL wife, She's an Angel.
Always up in the Air,
and Harping about something!

-W.C. Fields (Paraphased)
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W.C. Fields

Bought a bamboo poster of him saying this wwbitd. Sold it on eBay bitd. I rather regret it. 😔
 

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If you have a problem and you hire someone who builds walls to fix that problem their solution will be to build a wall, regardless of the nature of the problem.

Me. It's a work thing.
 

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"A general should say to himself many times a day: If the hostile army were to make its appearance in front, on my right, or on my left, what should I do?"
—Napoleon
 

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"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia.
It is a riddle wrapped inside a mystery inside an enigma."
-Sir Winston Churchill
 

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"The nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting down by fools."
—Unknown
 

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“For even if a decisive battle be the goal, the aim of strategy must be to bring about this battle under the most advantageous circumstances. And the more advantageous the circumstances, the less, proportionately, will be the fighting.”
—B. H. Liddell Hart
 
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