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If he is full of flaws, the nation would be weak and vulnerable. - Sun Zi Art of War, Chapter 3In the third section of the chapter, we have seen the importance of the generals of the nation, the stronger they are the stronger the nation. This sentence reinforces the saying of Sun Zi, that the generals hold the fate of the nation and its people.In war, it is better to go for swift victories rather than engaging in a prolong campaign. Thus a general who is adept in warfare is also the controller of people’s fate and nation’s survival. - Sun Zi Art of War, Chapter 2Business ApplicationSo did yo The day progressed, however, and this hint of uneasiness persistently tugged at my consciousness. While going about my day, I couldn't really pinpoint what it was. Perhaps, as every single white female reaches a certain age (over thirty, that is), she begins to remember all the wonderful golden nuggets she was taught as a girl in parochial school (okay, that part is just about me). Or could it be, that as I begin to approach the last third of my life, the part beyond my "after-thirty" years (I've always divided it that way: before thirty, after thirty… and beyond…), that I have become more responsibly reflective? Maybe I'm just more willing to allow information into my mind's database that I determine to be "important and factual"? There was no denying it, though. This tug at what lies beneath my conscious mind would not rest. It wasn't until I finally stopped dead in my tracks while preparing a delicious pepper steak, complete with shallot gravy and grilled zucchini, that I realized what it was. I felt shame! As the gravy dripped off the spoon, and I stared into space, I felt ashamed that I not only didn't know it was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on that second weekend in January, but in truth, I really knew very little about the man, and the reason there was a day in his honor at all. Oh sure, I knew he was a great leader in the early stages of our nation's Civil Rights Movement. I knew he was a beloved, revered and honored leader among both white and African Americans, who was senselessly and brutally assassinated. But that was all
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