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A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool do from his friends.
Author:
Arnold Palmer
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War itself is the enemy of the human race.
Author:
Howard Zinn
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans.
Author:
Don Young
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Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
Author:
John Yoo
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Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.
Author:
Francis Yockey
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
Author:
William Yeats
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However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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The current stage does not allow the entrance of everyone into a military conflict, however everyone must be ready for the day in which it might take place, as the Zionist enemy is planning to attack our people and to control our land once again.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland.
Author:
Ahmed Yassin
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Author:
Isoroku Yamamoto
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Author:
Early Wynn
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When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.
Author:
Ron Wood
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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Author:
Walter Winchell
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
Author:
E. White
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But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
Author:
Paul Weyrich
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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
Author:
William Westmoreland
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I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.
Author:
Mary Wesley
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Author:
Duke Wellington
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Author:
Orson Welles
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Author:
George Washington
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Author:
George Washington
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If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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I have always been and will be an enemy of communism, but I love all people.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
Author:
Kurt Vonnegut
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Better is the enemy of good.
Author:
Voltaire
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Author:
Voltaire
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The best is the enemy of the good.
Author:
Voltaire
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Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Author:
Virgil
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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
Author:
Henry Villard
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The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.
Author:
Titus Vespasian
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From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
Author:
Jones Very
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In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Author:
Raoul Vaneigem
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For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Author:
Mao Tung
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Author:
Mao Tung
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Author:
Mao Tung
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It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Author:
Margaret Thatcher
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Author:
Tertullian
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Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
Author:
William Temple
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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.
Author:
Anne Swetchine
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One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Author:
Anne Swetchine
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In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Author:
Anne Swetchine
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I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Author:
August Strindberg
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Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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When the King is checked, or any valuable Piece in danger from the attack of an enemy, you are said to interpose a man when you play it between the attacked and attacking Piece.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.
Author:
Willie Stargell
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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
Author:
Charles Spurgeon
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Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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No enemy is worse than bad advice.
Author:
Sophocles
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Author:
Socrates
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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
Author:
Gerrit Smith
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Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.
Author:
Joe Slovo
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However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.
Author:
Joe Slovo
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Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.
Author:
Frank Sinatra
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Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
Author:
Bill Shuster
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
Author:
Natan Sharansky
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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
Author:
Charles Secondat
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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
Author:
David Seabury
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Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
Author:
Brent Scowcroft
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Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.
Author:
Dwight Schultz
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No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.
Author:
Michael Scheuer
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Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
Author:
George Savile
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If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
Author:
Jim Sasser
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Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
Author:
Jose Santos
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It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
Author:
Morley Safer
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Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.
Author:
Mikhail Saakashvili
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An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Author:
Saadi
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.
Author:
Dennis Ross
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My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.
Author:
Julius Rosenberg
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Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Author:
Mitt Romney
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Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Author:
Erwin Rommel
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
Author:
Dana Rohrabacher
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Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.
Author:
Knute Rockne
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I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Author:
Tim Robbins
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I think knowing people by first names, not by what they do sexually, is really what it's about. Not being afraid. Fear is the enemy. I've always been comfortable with being gay.
Author:
Herb Ritts
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It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.
Author:
Guy Ritchie
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The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy.
Author:
Guy Ritchie
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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We need a common enemy to unite us.
Author:
Condoleezza Rice
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There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist.
Author:
Boyd Rice
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Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
Author:
Erich Remarque
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Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Author:
Ronald Reagan
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I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.
Author:
Trevor Rabin
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Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Author:
Vladimir Putin
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Anyone who is an enemy of mine, let him love women, but let he who is my friend rejoice in men.
Author:
Sextus Propertius
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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
Author:
Colin Powell
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Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
Author:
Mark Poster
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From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.
Author:
Marcus Pollio
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The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.
Author:
John Pistole
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The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Man has no greater enemy than himself.
Author:
Petrarch
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We have met the enemy, and they are ours.
Author:
Oliver Perry
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Time is my greatest enemy.
Author:
Evita Peron
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.
Author:
Ron Paul
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Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
Author:
Gilbert Parker
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It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.
Author:
Saskya Pandita
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New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Author:
Major Owens
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In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.
Author:
Robert Owen
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Author:
Ovid
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Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
Author:
Joel Osteen
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Author:
George Orwell
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
Author:
Carroll O'Connor
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Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.
Author:
Ric Ocasek
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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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The press is the enemy.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.
Author:
Lennart Nilsson
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Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
Author:
Ben Nicholson
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Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Author:
Isaac Newton
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I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.
Author:
Tancredo Neves
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It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
Author:
Knute Nelson
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The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.
Author:
Knute Nelson
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Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.
Author:
Bill Nelson
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And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
Author:
Janet Napolitano
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You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
Author:
Miyamoto Musashi
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Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Author:
Gilbert Murray
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Our enemy is motivated by hatred and will not stop planning more plots against until they are ultimately defeated. Today was an important and necessary victory in the war, but there is a long road ahead. We must remain committed if we are to succeed and protect our liberty.
Author:
Timothy Murphy
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In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Author:
Brian Mulroney
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This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
Author:
Gustave Moreau
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The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.
Author:
Michael Moore
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I know the established Christian theology... I know the enemy, but the enemy doesn't know me. Thus the enemy has already lost the war.
Author:
Sun Moon
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I am not anyone's enemy.
Author:
Sun Moon
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Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy.
Author:
Helmuth Moltke
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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Author:
Spike Milligan
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Author:
Olin Miller
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Moreover, broad plans commensurate with our national purpose and resources would bring conviction of our power to every soldier in the front line, to the nations associated with us in the war, and to the enemy.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.
Author:
Kelly Miller
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The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Author:
Henry Miller
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In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.
Author:
Tom Metzger
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Moslems are no less an enemy than the Jews.
Author:
Tom Metzger
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When we go to war I will not ask the White Racist next to me what is he Christian or Atheist? I will only expect him or her to kill the enemy as I will.
Author:
Tom Metzger
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Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.
Author:
James Meredith
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When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
Author:
John Mellencamp
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When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.
Author:
Timothy McVeigh
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Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.
Author:
David McNally
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A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Author:
Ian Mcewan
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You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.
Author:
John McCain
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People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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So it was just a case of getting a bunch of songs that I had been writing for years but hadn't recorded together, and the result was My Own Best Enemy.
Author:
Richard Marx
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I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.
Author:
Richard Marx
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I am not an enemy of Adventism.
Author:
Walter Martin
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If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld.
Author:
Ed Markey
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I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.
Author:
Peter Mandelson
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Author:
Nelson Mandela
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
Author:
James Madison
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Reason is the enemy of faith.
Author:
Martin Luther
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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has.
Author:
Martin Luther
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
Author:
Bela Lugosi
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I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
Author:
Clare Luce
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General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
Author:
James Longstreet
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Author:
Sam Levenson
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We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
Author:
James Larkin
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More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.
Author:
Nick Lampson
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I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Author:
Dalai Lama
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We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
Author:
Ricardo Lagos
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By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies.
Author:
Nguyen Ky
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Author:
Abraham Kuyper
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We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.
Author:
Fritz Kreisler
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This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Author:
Charles Krauthammer
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Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
Author:
David Korten
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If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.
Author:
Suge Knight
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It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.
Author:
Christopher Knight
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Author:
Henry Kissinger
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The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Author:
Neil Kinnock
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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And I think people who sort of glibly say, 'Well, you know, they're not going to handle security, UAE is a great ally,' four and a half years ago, they were not an ally, they were working with the enemy, and if those same people are still there today that were there then, these are real serious issues.
Author:
Peter King
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The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
Author:
Ayatollah Khamenei
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History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.
Author:
Hamad Khalifa
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The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.
Author:
Ramman Kenoun
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Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
Author:
Mark Kennedy
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This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Author:
Mark Kennedy
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Author:
John Kennedy
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We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Author:
John Kennedy
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
Author:
John Kennedy
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
Author:
Walt Kelly
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Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Author:
Helen Keller
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The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
Author:
John Keats
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We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.
Author:
Philip Kearny
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Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
Author:
Rosabeth Kanter
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Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.
Author:
Herman Kahn
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I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.
Author:
Meir Kahane
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I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.
Author:
Kato Kaelin
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There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.
Author:
Akhmad Kadyrov
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The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
Author:
Walid Jumblatt
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That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
Author:
June Jordan
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Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.
Author:
Roy Jenkins
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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
Author:
William James
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I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
Author:
Thomas Jackson
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Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.
Author:
Thomas Jackson
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Author:
Washington Irving
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The Jews are the enemy of National Socialism.
Author:
Arthur Inquart
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Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
Author:
Chrissie Hynde
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People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.
Author:
Kay Hutchison
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Our country was hit on 9/11, 2001. Everybody in the world knows that. It hasn't been easy to deal with a different kind of enemy, but that is what we have, a different kind of enemy.
Author:
Kay Hutchison
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
Author:
King Hussein I
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I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hurt our national unity is my enemy until the day of judgement.
Author:
King Hussein I
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We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
Author:
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
Author:
Edward Howe
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After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.
Author:
Tom Hooper
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
Author:
Paul Hindenburg
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It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.
Author:
Heinrich Himmler
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One thing is certain: wherever the enemy lands, if once we can get to grips with him on the Continent, where we are not dependent on supplies from overseas, that ought to be, and will be, all right with us.
Author:
Heinrich Himmler
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The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .
Author:
Heinrich Himmler
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A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Author:
Thor Heyerdahl
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
Author:
Hesiod
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What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy.
Author:
Arthur Hertzberg
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Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
Author:
Claude Helvetius
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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Author:
Joseph Heller
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Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.
Author:
Sterling Hayden
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
Author:
Dan Hawkins
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Author:
Sydney Harris
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Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
Author:
Hanoi Hannah
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Author:
Nhat Hanh
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Author:
Dag Hammarskjold
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The finishing off of the encircled enemy army is to be left to the Luftwaffe.
Author:
Franz Halder
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The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.
Author:
Douglas Haig
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Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
Author:
David Hackworth
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Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
Author:
David Hackworth
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We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.
Author:
David Hackworth
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One never really knows who one's enemy is.
Author:
Jurgen Habermas
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Author:
Ulysses Grant
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In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.
Author:
Kay Granger
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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What good is a friend if you can't make an enemy of him?
Author:
William Gillette
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
Author:
J. Getty
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Author:
Adolf Galland
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Author:
John Galbraith
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If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.
Author:
Frank Gaffney
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If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
Author:
Solomon Gabirol
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
Author:
J. Fuller
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
Author:
J. Fuller
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Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.
Author:
Betty Friedan
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Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.
Author:
Betty Friedan
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Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
Author:
Betty Friedan
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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Author:
Gene Fowler
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.
Author:
Jean Fontaine
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This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
Author:
John Flynn
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Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
Author:
John Flynn
