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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
Author:
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Our enemies and our would-be enemies are working very hard at cyberterrorism... They're trying to level the playing field because they know they can't beat us tank for tank, plane for plane.
Author:
Curt Weldon
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The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.
Author:
Jimmie Walker
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Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don't find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.
Author:
Jacques Verges
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Author:
Lao Tzu
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Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
Author:
Robert Trout
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies.
Author:
Bill Toomey
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Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.
Author:
Taliesin
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Author:
Tacitus
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Enemies are necessary for the wheels of the U.S. military machine to turn.
Author:
John Stockwell
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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?
Author:
Sophocles
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Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
Author:
Sophocles
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But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Author:
Sophocles
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I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.
Author:
William Shirley
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It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer.
Author:
Norma Shearer
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Even paranoids have real enemies.
Author:
Delmore Schwartz
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I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.
Author:
Mary Richards
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Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Author:
Plutarch
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Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
Author:
Aristotle Onassis
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Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.
Author:
Daniel Okrent
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Author:
Barack Obama
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
Author:
Harold Nicolson
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.
Author:
Edvard Munch
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It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.
Author:
David Merrick
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Keep your enemies in front of you.
Author:
Chris Matthews
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Then the administration tied it in to the regional dispute between Israel and its enemies, as if that's about international terrorism. No, it's not.
Author:
Chris Matthews
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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
Author:
Jose Marti
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While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.
Author:
John Linder
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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
Author:
C. Lewis
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A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
Author:
Max Lerner
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You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Author:
John Kennedy
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
Author:
P. James
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You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
Author:
John Irving
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The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
Author:
William Inge
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We seem to be our own worst enemies. We should require critical U.S. infrastructure to remain in U.S. hands.
Author:
Duncan Hunter
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I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.
Author:
David Hume
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So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
Author:
Edward Howe
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No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
Author:
Napoleon Hill
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Author:
Frank Herbert
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Enemies are so stimulating.
Author:
Katharine Hepburn
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.
Author:
Paul Harris
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Author:
Baltasar Gracian
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Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends.
Author:
Giovanni Giolitti
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
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The enemies of freedom will not prevail.
Author:
Bill Frist
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Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
Author:
James Fallows
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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
Author:
Mary Douglas
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
Author:
Diogenes
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Always keep your friends close, but your enemies keep closer.
Author:
J. Day
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The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies.
Author:
Georges Danton
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Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Author:
Charles Colton
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I'm just grateful to be on this planet. I have no enemies that I know of. I'm just the guy who makes happy.
Author:
Chubby Checker
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Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
Author:
Linda Chavez
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
Author:
Alexis Carrel
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If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.
Author:
Dennis Cardoza
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So yeah, but from the show and as far as MTV I have a lot of friends, and from the challenges and the other shows, that I've met. I currently don't have any enemies that I know of.
Author:
Trishelle Cannatella
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When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.
Author:
Maria Callas
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Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Author:
Lord Byron
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Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Author:
George Byron
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Author:
Robert Burton
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
Author:
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Author:
Elizabeth Bowen
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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
Author:
Lionel Blue
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
Author:
Arthur Bloch
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I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
Author:
Buffalo Bill
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I can't afford a whole new set of enemies.
Author:
Cecil Beaton
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
Author:
Daisy Bates
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Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.
Author:
Rona Barrett
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The last of our enemies is laid low.
Author:
Clement Attlee
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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Author:
Raymond Aron
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Author:
Aristophanes
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Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Author:
Antisthenes
