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Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small.

Sun Tzu

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When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground.
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If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight.
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