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• Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Biblical, Views, Rivers

  Alister E. McGrath (2007). “Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution : a History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-first”, SPCK Publishing

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• The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Differences, Enemy, Use

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Heart, Weakness, Ears

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Heart

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• It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dangerous, untrustworthy, cringing and fearful; or he can be faithful and loyal, courageous and the best of companions and allies.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Dog, Faithful, Savages

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• British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Mean, Illustration, Expression

  Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994). “On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us damn America, let us damn Israel, let us damn them and their allies until death.

  Sami Al-Arian

  Israel, America, Damn

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• Ukraine has been a strong partner to the United States on international initiatives and a committed ally in fighting the War on Terrorism.

  Vito Fossella

  Strong, War, Fighting

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• Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and in some sense a battleground of the war on terror.

  Stephen Hadley

  War, Pakistan, Terror

  "Bush seeks to calm Pakistani worries" by Jo Johnson and Caroline Daniel, www.ft.com. March 4, 2006.

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• Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

  Stephen Hadley

  United States, Pakistan, States

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• Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Memories, Betray, Nemesis

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• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Military, Fighting, Technology

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• Grief does not seem to me to be a choice. Whether or not you think grief has value, you will lose what matters to you. The world will break your heart. So I think we’d better look at what grief might offer us. It’s like what Rilke says about self-doubt: it is not going to go away, and therefore you need to think about how it might become your ally.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Heart, Thinking

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• Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

  Yukio Mishima

  Sweet, Hands, Long

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Soldier, Natural

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.29, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• I never imagined when I wrote my first book on Strauss that the unscrupulous elite that he elevates would ever come so close to political power, nor that the ominous tyranny of the wise would ever come so close to being realised in the political life of a great nation like the United States. But fear is the greatest ally of tyranny.

  Shadia Drury

  Wise, Book, Being Real

  "Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neocons, and Iraq". Interview with Danny Postel, www.opendemocracy.net. October 15, 2003.

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• The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Break Up, Fighting, Grandmother

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• Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  United States, Pakistan, Politics

  The New York Times, July 06, 1973.

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• The Libertarians, of whom I'm rather fond, are running Harry Browne. Libertarians are, just as they claim, principled and consistent - they believe in individual liberty. Commendable as they are, and despite their reliability as allies in civil liberties struggles, you may notice that Libertarians sometimes prove that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, and that there is a difference between logic and wisdom.

  Molly Ivins

  Running, Believe, Struggle

  Fort Worth Star-Telegram, September 7, 1996.

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• A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.

  John Wooden

  Leadership, Powerful, Example

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2009). “Coach Wooden One-On-One”, p.60, Revell

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• An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

  Eamon de Valera

  Real, Independent, Islands

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• International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.

  Samora Machel

  Fighting, Humanity, Unity

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• During Richard Nixon’s first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South’s ability to defend itself. The result was a success - until Congress snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by cutting off funding for our ally in 1975. Washington should follow a similar strategy now, but this time finish the job properly.

  Melvin Laird

  Jobs, Cutting, Building Up

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• The job of a good ally is not to save anybody but rather to help create the conditions under which people can assert and grow their own power.

  Rinku Sen

  Jobs, People, Helping

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• In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.

  Louis Susman

  War, America, Hardship

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