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Be where your enemy is not.

Sun Tzu

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Sun Tzu
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The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.
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If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.
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When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.
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He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
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