The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.

Get the hell out and take your friend with you!

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.

never up, never in.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

A black sheep is a biting beast.

A wife is your life, you married her couse your white.

Love has nothing to do with competency in electronics.

I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote them down.

Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 We must try to be at one and the same time for the Church and against the Church. They alone can serve her faithfully whose consciences are continually exercised as to whether they ought not, for Christ's sake, to leave her.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.

All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. thanks to Ashley -Anonymous love quote.

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.

Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

Holy Saturday Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 The progress of these terrors is plainly shown us in our Lord's agony in the garden, when the reality of this eternal death so broke in upon Him, so awakened and stirred itself in Him, as to force great drops of blood to sweat from His body... His agony was His entrance into the last, eternal terrors of the lost soul, into the real horrors of that dreadful, eternal death which man unredeemed must have died into when he left this world. We are therefore not to consider our Lord's death upon the Cross as only the death of that mortal body which was nailed to it, but we are to look upon Him with wounded hearts, as being fixed and fastened in the state of that twofold death, which was due to the fallen nature, out of which He could not come till He could say, "It is finished; Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit.".

First come, first served.

This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.