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Planning Quote by Sun Tzu

“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.” quote by Sun Tzu — Download Open image

“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

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Go into emptiness, strike voids, bypass what he defends hit him where he does not expect you.

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Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies. It is owing to his…

“So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness.”

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