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"Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals."
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"When in fear it is safest to force the attack."
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"For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak."
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"If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third."
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"This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration."
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"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."
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"I look around briefly at the other players like I always do before a game. Other than Queenie, Bill, and Talon, I don't know any of them (and I don't care enough about them to know them). But if there's going to be any cordiality, any forced politeness or 'Aw, shucks, let's all just try to have a good time here tonight' kind of blather, then now's the time to get it out of the way before I get down to the business of screwing everyone out of their hopes and dreams."
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"Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend, march swiftly to places where you are not expected."
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"So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness."
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"The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals."
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"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death."
Death
"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
Opportunity
"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."
Money
"The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man."
Man
"If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near."
Enemy
"One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all."
Military
"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good."
Art
"Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground."
Survival
"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
Enemy
"Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory."
People
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