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• I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

  Roy Cohn

  Defeat, Worst

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• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fighting, Risk, Doe

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• We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Moving, Night

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Get your enemy to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Order, Judging

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.126

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• Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Time, Healer, Stealers

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• An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

  Sophocles

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

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• The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

  Thornton Wilder

  Real, Drama, Eye

  1961 In the New York Times, 6 Nov.

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• I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Telling The Truth

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• Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

  Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

  Real, Men, States

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• The truly civilized man has no enemies.

  Charles Fletcher Dole

  Men, Civilized

  "The Smoke and the Flame: A Study in the Development of Religion". Book by Charles Fletcher Dole, 1902.

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• Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.

  M. Scott Peck

  Race, Community, Groups

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

  Plutarch

  Kings, Said, Asks

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 58 Agis. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

  Plutarch

  Soldier, Said, Fallen

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country -- Doctor, that is a different case.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Doctors, Political

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• Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Love, Stress, Night

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• I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

  Eartha Kitt

  Fear, Creating, Risk

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• Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

  Winifred Holtby

  Time, Betray

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House

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• Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Real, Views, Needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World”, p.11, PuddleDancer Press

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• Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

  Plutarch

  Freedom, Conquer

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• Enemies are an indication of character.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Character, Indication

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Bat”, p.60, Booklassic

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• When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

  Susan Faludi

  Faces

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

  Donna Leon

  Fate, Hands, Doe

  Donna Leon (2009). “Acqua Alta: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery”, p.132, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.

  Abraham Flexner

  Real, Men, Wings

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• One's soldier should not abuse the enemy. 'Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

  Takeda Nobushige

  Dragons, Soldier, Abuse

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• Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

  Stanley Crouch

  Brotherhood, Bigs, Leap

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