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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
― The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713
“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― The Poetical Works of John Dryden
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― The Poetical Works of John Dryden
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― A Civil Campaign
― A Civil Campaign
“Persuasion usually came first, but military strength was always the indispensable instrument of Byzantine statecraft, without which nothing else could be of much use—certainly not bribes to avert attacks, which would merely whet appetites if proffered in weakness. The upkeep of sufficient military strength was therefore the permanent, many-sided challenge that the Byzantine state had to overcome each and every day, year after year, century after century. Two essential Roman practices that the Byzantines were long able to preserve—as the western empire could not—made this possible, if only by a very small margin at times.”
― The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
― The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
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