#my

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#age #changes #economy #government #internet

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once. ↗

— Roy Blunt

#advertised #army #being #day #description

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art of war #best #country #destroy #enemy

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #know #self #thousand #thy

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#countries #ethic #good #latin #mythology

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#books #curious #died #even #grandfather

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#enemy #importance #strategy #supreme #thus

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#certain #enemy #ignorant #peril #you

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#agents #army #close #commander #confidential

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#anatomy #designers #figure #flunked #human