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• Hence to fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence
  supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting....
• To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill.
  To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill. -- Sun Tzu...
• In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882...
• To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable.
  The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. -- Sun Tzu, The Art of Wa...
• War is based on deception. -- Sun Tzu (ca. 500 BC)
• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere
  like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show....
• In difficult ground, press on; In encircled ground, devise stratagem
  In death ground, fight. -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War (circa 400 B.C.)...
• If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
  -- Sun Tzu...
• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
  -- Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840...