“Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose. Tactics have a half life.”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
“Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises …”
— Graham Greene, book Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock (1938)
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