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teach1st

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1. It's hard to attribute this to Sun Tzu

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Wed Aug 23, 2023, 12:09 AM

Aug 2023

https://www.truthorfiction.com/sun-tzu-rule-over-ashes-quote/

https://shibumimanagementcanada.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/invented-sun-tzu-art-of-war-quotes/

These are invented, borrowed or just plain stupid quotes attributed to Sun Tzu’s Art of War. Some of this comes from bad translation, but most is either Hollywood or fortune cookies. If your Sun Tzu: Art of War has any of these “quotes” you have a clearly inferior rendition. That assessment is based on twenty years’ research. You can also have a look at “Wikiquotes.” It has identified a number of fraudulent Sun Tzuisms on its site: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu#Misattributed

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'An evil enemy will burn his nation to the ground to rule over the ashes' [View all] CousinIT Aug 2023 OP

It's hard to attribute this to Sun Tzu teach1st Aug 2023 #1

+1 Celerity Aug 2023 #2

thanks. appreciate the correction. stopdiggin Aug 2023 #4

We used to call it "reverse plagiarism" when I was in school. We'd come up with dobleremolque Aug 2023 #5

Appreciate the correction. Whoever said it, knew someone like Trump, apparently! n/t CousinIT Aug 2023 #7

So they had that Evil trump shit Cha Aug 2023 #3

Nothing new. Aussie105 Aug 2023 #6