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善守者，藏于九地之下，善攻者，动于九天之上，故能自保而全胜也。

By Skl8em | Published: August 30, 2008
Ugh… It was tougher than i had hoped… anyway, i directly tried to translate the sentence, let’s see what i got: 善 (shàn) means well/kind or good, 守 (shǒu) is guard, and 者 (zhě ?) is roughly that which is… So we get 善守者: That which guards well,   藏 (cáng) to hide conceal 于 (yú) is a connector/ preposition 九 (jiǔ) nine 地 (dì): place/ location (I suppose [...]
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投之亡地然后存，陷之死地然后生。

By Skl8em | Published: August 21, 2008
Recently I stumbled upon this sentence. Since i was intrigued, i tried to quickly translate it through google language tools and babelfish. Since the translations made no sense whatsoever (try it by yourself, it’s rather funny), i tried harder to find out what it was. Googling for it send me to the baidu site, with [...]
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