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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
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All war is deception.
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One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
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To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad…
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This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there…
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Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter…
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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people…
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All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is…
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How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and…
— Ryan Holiday
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Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
— Richard Baxter
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When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
— Julian Fellowes
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame…
— Arundhati Roy
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Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all…
— Shan Sa
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Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town.…
— Shan Sa
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If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound,…
— William Shakespeare
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He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,…
— Sun Tzu
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