Orson Scott Card Quotes on Strategy
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Forget it, Mazer. I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
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It's my greatest gift, I can see where the weak points are, I can see how to get in and use them, I just see those things without even trying.
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He isn't a killer. He just wins - thoroughly.
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Remember: the enemy's gate is down.
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When you strike, your aim will be deadly. These people came for entertainment, but they're your targets; you will pierce them to the hearts.
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You don't fight with minimum force, you fight with maximum force at endurable cost. You don't just pink your enemy, you don't even bloody him, you destroy his capability to fight back.
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That's why bean never fully trusted his own guesses. He acted on them, but always kept himself open to the possibility that his interpretations might be wrong
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He knew that bean's powers of analysis were extraordinary. So, also, were his powers of deception. Some of bean's guesses weren't right - but was that because he didn't know the truth, or because he simply didn't want them to know how much he knew, or how much he guessed
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Nobody was going to wait for you strike. Because here's the thing - we don't give a shit about fairness here. We're soldiers. Soldiers do not give the other guy a sporting chance. Soldiers shoot in the back, lay traps and ambushes, lie to the enemy and outnumber the other bastard every chance they get. Your kind of murder only works among civilians. And you were too cocky, too stupid, too insane to realize that.
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Sometimes the other side is irresistibly strong, and then the only sensible course of action is to retreat in order to save your force to fight another day.
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They've never seen us make a move like that. They don't understand that, yes, humans will always act to preserve their own lives - except for the times when they don't. In the bugger's experience, autonomous beings do not sacrifice themselves. Once they understood our autonomy, the seed of their defeat was sown.
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He simply learned how to be patient. How to bide his time.
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Hiding from your enemy is the same as letting him win
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat
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He doesn't care about making a good impression. He doesn't hurry to ingratiate himself with people. He takes his time sizing up a situation and then finds the least troublesome way to his goal.
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Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do
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I'd be afraid to be your enemy. But I'd be even more afraid to be your friend in battle. You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you, and your friend will die
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of. -Homebody
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And it came into Hooch's mind that when both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth. -Red Prophet
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead. -Stone Tables
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You can't defeat a powerful enemy unless you understand him completely, and you can't understand him unless you know the desires of his heart, and you can't know the desires of his heart until you truly love him.