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Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased.
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These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War
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War is the province of danger, and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.
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War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty.
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Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult.