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It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it.

Which kind of explained why she was such a bitch most of the time.


Cecily von Ziegesar

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FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and c...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law ...
FRIEDRICH VON BERNHARDI War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the m...
ALEXA VON TOBEL Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best
OTTO VON BISMARCK Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means go...
LUDWIG VON MISES They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I'm very good at breaking up with people. Very good. It requires a lot of skill, but what you do...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning?...Amazed!
LUDWIG VON MISES He who considers too much will perform little.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER What shall he fear that does not fear death.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,
To the eternal sun, I render back
These atoms, jo...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER War is the province of danger.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political inter...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must be...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fa...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Politics is the womb in which war develops.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ To secure peace is to prepare for war.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ Freedom exists only with power.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE