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“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: deception, life, war

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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

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“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: business, strategy, war

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#4

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War

tags: deception, strategy, tactics, war, warfare

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#5

“Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
3 He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
4 He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
5 He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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#6

“When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: the-art-of-war

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#7

“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: colors, creativity, diversity, idic, innovation, inspirational, invention, music, problem-solving

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#8

“Whatever comes, don’t push it away. When it goes, do not grieve.”
― Mooji

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#9

“You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness”
― Mooji

tags: enlightenment, peace, reality, self-realization, spiritualty

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#10

“Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.”
― Mooji

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#11

“Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death.
Because this death release you into real life.
You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.”
― Mooji

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#12

“So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: humor

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#13

“I don't remember using a dirty pipe like that. My pipe isn't a cheap piece of crap. It was made by the name brand "Bitch".-Tsukuyo”
― Sorachi Hideaki

tags: bitch, cheapness, dirty, pipe

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#14

“Sorry, but despite how I look, I really love this planet.-Gintoki”
― Sorachi Hideaki

tags: home, love

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#15

“I stand on the battlefield to protect what's important to me. And if anyone's to stand in my way, I don't care if it's one of my kind, my brother or anyone else... I'll crush them all!”
― Sorachi Hideaki

tags: important, protect

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#16

“Without you saying, we're already living how we wanted to. We're here because we wanted to. We're with you because we wanted to. -Kagura”
― Sorachi Hideaki

tags: friendship

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#17

“People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

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#18

“Sorrow and love ― life, in other words ― cannot be considered a sickness because they hurt.”
― Italo Svevo, Zeno's Conscience

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#19

“The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: artists

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#20

“that the one who protects her heart from fear of loss ends up with no heart at all. Just an”
― Rhyannon Byrd, Dark Wolf Rising

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#21

“When will you discover that it would be a good idea to memorize your life, even the large part of it that will revolt you?”
― italo svevo, Zeno's Conscience

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#22

“No, we're vampires. And we're no more monstrous than any other species. Humans included. Good, bad, and evil isn't species-specific. Don't you ever question that.”
― C.C. Hunter, Reborn

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#23

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

tags: beauty, cruelty, love

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#24

“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

tags: sense-of-wonder

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#25

“He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

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#26

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: ambition, inspirational, wisdom

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#27

“The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief's bugle, but where to blow it,”
― Maya Angelou, Even the Stars Look Lonesome

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#28

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: books, thought

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#29

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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#30

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

tags: isolation, loneliness, sadness

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