Sun Tzu Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
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When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
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There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.
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I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.
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When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.
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We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.
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What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a given product into a commodity market, which is characterized by declining prices and profit margins, increasing competition, and lowered barriers to entry.
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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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It's scary to not know when your next job is coming, and that is a daily fear when you are trying to act full-time.
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One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.
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The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
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Fear is the mother of morality.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.
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What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best trained, best equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy — in Afghanistan and in Texas.
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My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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It's not easy cutting welfare bills. It's not easy cutting the deficit.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
