To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

~ Sun Tzu

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The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive. Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!

~ David G. Jones

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To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

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It is good to know one's enemy.It is better to know one's self.

~ Max Hawthorne

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Be selective in your battles...

~ Brandi L. Bates

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The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military tactics. Likewise, they would have been surprised to see the Ping-fa military metaphor—an inspired teaching device—come to be seen as the message and not the medium.

~ David G. Jones

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If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.

~ Lionel Suggs

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