There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. – Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. – Sun Tzu

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. – Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. – Sun Tzu
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. – Sun Tzu
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. – Lewis Thomas
Theres something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times – one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. – Julie Burchill