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readiness
«Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
readiness, responsibility, springs
«Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.»
«The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Art,
War
| Keywords:
Art of War, attacking, coming, in all likelihood, likelihood, position, readiness, receive, rely, teaches, The Art of War, The Enemy, unassailable
«For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: / (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) / Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; / And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
captivity, carnal, casting, fulfilled, imaginations, in the flesh, readiness, walk in, warfare
«That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing-the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Conflict
| Keywords:
characterizes, dash, ingenuity, readiness, typified, typify
«For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
civilized, in proportion to, proportion, readiness, willingness
«Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
in proportion to, readiness, willingness
«Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Living,
Men
| Keywords:
brother, freely, his brother, killing, readiness
