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“When these five kinds of spy are all at work, none can discover the secret system. This is called “divine manipulation of the threads.” It is the sovereign’s most precious faculty.”

–Sun-tzu, The Art of War (Sunzi Bingfa)

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“To whom thus Mutability; “The things, / Which we see not how they are mov’d and swayd, / Ye may attribute to yourselves as kings, / And say, they by your secret power are made: / But what we see not, who shall us perswade? / But were they so, as ye them faine to be / Mov’d by your might, and ordered by your ayde, / Yet what if I can prove, that even yee / Yourselves are likewise chang’d, and subiect unto mee?”

–Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

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…I erase rhymes that you wrote down / I leave ya quote cloaked clown! / you’re a joke, clown! / oh now / I’m the reason the system broke down!

–Eyedea, “Freestyle on the Wake Up Show”

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“…so what you actin’ for? / you ain’t half as raw! / you need to practice more!”

–Big L, “98 Freestyle”