“Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude, most dangerous.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.”
― The Book of Five Rings
― The Book of Five Rings
“It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.”
― The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi
― The Book of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi
“Long before they had ever met, I think this destiny awaited them. They were not like ships passing in the night. It wasn't like they didn't understand each other. They understood each other better than anyone else, and each was focused solely on the other.”
― 監視官 常守朱 1 [Kanshikan Akane Tsunemori]
― 監視官 常守朱 1 [Kanshikan Akane Tsunemori]
“Let us consider humanity a biogram (the basic DNA blueprint of the human organism and its potentials) united with a logogram (this set of "conditioned verbal habits"). The biogram has not changed in several hundred thousand years; the logogram is different in each society.”
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy
― The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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