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“The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.”
― Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
― Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters.”
― The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction
― The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction

“In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.”
― Red Dragon
― Red Dragon

“You can only fight the way you practice”
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
― A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
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