"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent."
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Source: The Art of War. Book by Sun Tzu (Chapter XIII: Intelligence and Espionage), 5th century BC.
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