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• A line is an involuntary combination of people who are simultaneously irritated with one another and focused on a single, common circle of interests and goals. This leads to a mixture of rivalry, hostility, and collective sentiment, a constant readiness to close ranks against a common enemy - anyone who breaks the rules.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Circles, People, Goal

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• Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ. He endeavours to do everything in opposition to what Christ did and does.

  John of Kronstadt

  Men, Enemy, Devil

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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.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Unique, Jewish Tradition, Community

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• The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Nature, Science, Two

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• I will give you my definition of a nation, and you can add the adjective 'Jewish.' A Nation is, in my mind, an historical group of men of a recognizable cohesion held together by a common enemy. Then, if you add to that the word 'Jewish' you have what I understand to be the Jewish nation.

  Theodor Herzl

  Men, Giving, Historical

  Theodor Herzl (2014). “The Jewish State: with 2014 Foreword by Jerold S. Auerbach”, p.46, Quid Pro Books

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• I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Hate, Order

  "The Devil and the Good Lord" by Jean-Paul Sartre, (Act 11, sc. 2), 1951.

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• Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will.

  Albert J. Nock

  Running, Character, Men

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• Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Men, Enemy

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• Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

  Steven Pinker

  Christian, Party, Two

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• Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, War, Thinking

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• The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.

  Edward Gibbon

  Rome, Europe, Curiosity

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”

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• [But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.

  Homer

  Hands, Enemy, Age

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.50, Xist Publishing

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• Some countries such as Iran and Syria are using the commotion to distract attention from their own problems with the international community. The Palestinians, who have been deeply divided since their election, have found a common enemy in Denmark that unites them. Extremists and fundamentalists are exploiting the conflict to promote their radical agenda and win new members.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Country, Winning, Iran

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Enemy, Common, Wit

  Sir Roger L'Estrange (1714). “Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections”, p.392

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• We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy - the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

  Enemy, Together, Opinion

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• Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

  David Sedaris

  Ideas, Enemy, Camping

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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• God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Enemy, Devil, Common

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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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.

  Dennis A. Ross

  Enemy, Important, Common

  "Arafat reluctantly accepts Israeli, U.S. security demand". www.cnn.com. August 11, 1997.

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• As Americans we must always remember that we all have a common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Government, Enemy

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• Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.

  David Boaz

  War, Men, Class

  David Boaz (2015). “The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Party, Isis, Two

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• Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people."

  Vince Staples

  Hate, White, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Boss, Black

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• It is in fact no exaggeration to say that we live in terror that Senator McCarthy will one day make some irreparable blunder that will play directly into the hands of our common enemy and discredit the whole anti-Communist effort for a long while to come.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Hands, Play, Long

  Whittaker Chambers (1969). “Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961”, New York : Putnam

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