"If you stand by the river long enough,……" — Sun Tzu

"If you stand by the river long enough, you'll see the body of your enemy float by."

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407 Quotes by Sun Tzu

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Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
All war is deception.
One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage.
To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or…
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe…
Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's…
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact;…
Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live.…
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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