"An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness."

-- Sun Tzu

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“There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.”
“We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.”
“When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.”
“Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.”
“Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.”
“Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.”

Source : Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.”

Source : Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.80, Vintage
“there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2009). “The White Flag”, p.460, Wildside Press LLC

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