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• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Business

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

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• I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, People, Mets

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• We plan alone but we fulfill our plans together with the enemy, as it were, in accordance with his opposition.

  Ivan Konev

  Together, Plans, Opposition

  "How Wars End: Eye-witness Accounts of the Fall of Berlin" by Vladimir Sevruk, (p. 27), 1974.

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• Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Numbers, Lucky

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 221-22, "What Will He Do With It?" (1858), Book IX, Chapter III. Introduction, 1922.

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• I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Helping Others, My Friends, Ifs

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• If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friendship, Predicaments, Regard

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

  Joseph Addison

  Stories, Littles, Weak

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.192

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• In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

  Tom Metzger

  Police, Cases

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• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Treated

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Homage to the Departed”

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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.

  David Korten

  Democracy, Capitalism

  "Globalization and After". Book edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely, 2006.

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• A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

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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.

  David Hackworth

  Military, War, Media

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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.

  John McCain

  Mean, Succeed, Warfare

  "Sen. John McCain Talks Economy, Elections, Immigration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 05, 2010.

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• I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Disaster

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.214, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Real, War

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• Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

  Robert Greene

  Envy, Loyal, Way

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.9, Profile Books

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• To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.

  Audre Lorde

  Motivation, Reality, Self

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• I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

  Martin Luther

  War, Breaking Silence, Poor

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• Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hate, Golf

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• Even a paranoid can have enemies.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Paranoid, Security

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• We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.154

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• Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

  Robert Greene

  Funny, Hater, Care

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2015

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• The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

  Dan Wells

  My Friends

  "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  Mao Zedong

  Passivity Is, Goal, Passive

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