"To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful. Everyone calls victory in battle good, but it is not really good."
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"Victory is the main object in war."
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"The one who figures on victory at headquarters before even doing battle is the one who has the most strategic factors on his side."
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"According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?"
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"Those skilled in attack move as from above the nine-fold heavens. Thus they are capable both of protecting themselves and of gaining complete victory."
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"An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.""
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"Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it."
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"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."
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"Character is victory organized."
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"The Way of Heaven does not complete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation."
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"Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources."
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"I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement."
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"I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner."
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"Victory is by nature insolent and haughty."
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"Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side."
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"Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee."
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"The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact."
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"If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle."
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"Without a correct strategy the victory is impossible. But even the most correct strategy cannot give the victory under unfavorable objective conditions."
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"I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain."
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