"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more."
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Source: Sun Tzu (2013). “The Art of War”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
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