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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

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Source: in Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art, Tuttle Publishing, 15 November 1997, p. 30
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