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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

Sun Tzu

If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things.
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Battle Flesh Mind War
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
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Business Defeat Enemy Strategy Victory War
If his forces are united, separate them.
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Business Force Separate Strategy United War
Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.
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Battle Business Opponent Strategy War
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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Attach Courage Fire Inspirational Mountain Revenge War Wind Wood
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
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Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.
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The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
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Account Death Importance Inquiry Life Neglect Ruin Safety State
When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.
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Business Eyes Inspirational Situation Strategy War
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
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Business Death Destroy Life Strategy War
If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is “death.
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Death Inspirational Lost Quick Strategy War
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
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Angry Change Destroy Life Success Time
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.
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Business Decesion Energy Release Strategy War
Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy’s purpose.
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Business Enemy Gain Strategy Success War
In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack–the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers.
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Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.
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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

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