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Strategy Quotes
"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy."
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"If we wish to wrest an advantage from the enemy, we must not fix our minds on that alone, but allow for the possibility of the enemy also doing some harm to us, and let this enter as a factor into our calculations."
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"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
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"Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows, the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing."
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"So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?''Exactly.'I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork."
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"Also, the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do."
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"When your army has crossed the border, you should burn your boats and bridges, in order to make it clear to everybody that you have no hankering after home."
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"Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots."
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"He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared."
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"Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago."
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"To have a good enemy, choose a friend: he knows where to strike."
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"Relationships with your enemies; you need to cultivate those, because: "Only true enemies stab you in the front."
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"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."
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"I am amazed upon the many battle that we engage in, be it money, control or matters of the heart, only very few of us knows how to fight in the right way or understand who we are really fighting against. To win any battle you' ve got to have the right strategy and resources because victories don't come by accident."
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"To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence."
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"Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings."
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"Now-what's our game plan? Coach Hedge belched. He'd already had three espressos and a plate of doughnuts, along with two napkins and another flower from the vase on the table. He would've eaten the silverware, except Piper had slapped his hand. "Climb the mountain, Hedge said. "Kill everything except Piper's dad. Leave. "Thank you General Eisenhower, Jason grumbles."
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"If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve."
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"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended."
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"Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive " learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead."
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"The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense."
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"If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory."
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"Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain."
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"There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few."
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"One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger."
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"The best way to destroy your enemies is to make them adopt your worldview."
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"Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school."
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