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«So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.»
«It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.»
«To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| About:
Excellence
| Keywords:
battles, breaking, excellence, fighting, resistance, supreme
«defeat the enemies strategy»
«The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.»
«To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.»
«O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.»
«There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.»
«Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
| Keywords:
achievements, conquer, enlightened, enlightening, foreknowledge, general, ordinary, prince, surpass, surpassed, surpassing, The Enemy
«If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.»
Author: Sun Tzu
(Author, General)
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disinclined, distaste, longevity, overburden, overburdened, riches, soldiers, unduly
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