Quotes with siege

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• Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

  ― Sun Tzu
  Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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• A siege is an act of war.
  

  ― Noam Chomsky
  American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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• One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

  ― Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• overthrows
• operations
• prodigious
• misfortune
• kingdom
• lengthy

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