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“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

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Author:Che Guevara

“There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?”

Giving Kind Two Five Heard Color Battle Direct Notes Surprise Musical Circles Scales Endless Orthodox Flavor Variation Unorthodox Surprise Attacks

Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“This [a surprise attack] is an operation by no means to be despised in war, although it is rare, and less brilliant than a great strategic combination which renders victory certain even before the battle is fought.”

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Book:The Art of War

Source: The Art of War

“Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”

Enemy Plans Battle Surprise Contact

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.”

Thinking Whole Half Battle Losing Surprise

Author:David Mamet

“That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes. I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.”

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“Is Tyson okay?" I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though "peanut butter" is a strange battle cry. "You let him fight?" Stop changing the subject! You realize what you are asking me to do? My palace will be destroyed. "And Olympus might be saved." Do you have any idea how long I've worked on remodeling this palace? The game room alone took six hundred years. "Dad—" Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. "I am praying. I'm talking to you, right?" Oh . . . yes. Good point.”

“Is Tyson okay?' I asked. The question seemed to take my dad by surprise. 'He's fine. Doing much better than I expected. Though 'peanut butter' is a strange battle cry.”

Cry Strange Fine Dad Battle Okay Surprise My Dad Expected Peanuts Tyson Peanut Butter Battle Cry

Author:Rick Riordan