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• Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

  John Podhoretz

  Winning, Giving, Political

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• We have to learn to deal with this situation and prepare for contact. Studying the behavior pattern of the phenomenon, I came to the conclusion that they are neither friend nor foe, but study our planet and civilization from a mainly scientific perspective. They are as curious to learn more about us, as we would love to study other human and humanoid civilizations.

  Michael Hesemann

  Civilization, Perspective, Patterns

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• Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd.

  John Dryden

  Friendship, Men, Long

  John Dryden (1855). “The Poetical Works”, p.184

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• Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

  Charles Churchill

  Friendship, Hurt, Dread

  Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.64

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• Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu, General Press (2016). “The Art of War”, p.10, GENERAL PRESS

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• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.

  Otto Hermann Kahn

  Self, Law, Democracy

  Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied liberty: the myth of "a rich man's war"”

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• They saw their injured country's woe;
  The flaming town, the wasted field;
  Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
  They took the spear, - but left the shield.

  Philip Freneau

  Uplifting, Country, Memorial Day

  Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria

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• It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won. We must conquer all our circumstances there. We must first of all bring them there. We must survey them there. We must master them there. In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. Have you tried that? Or have you been satisfied to meet and fight your foes in the open spaces of the world?

  John Henry Jowett

  Spiritual, Prayer, Fighting

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• Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

  James E. Talmage

  Sister, Gratitude, Humility

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• To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Self, Giving

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• Cuz phony faggots I froze, it's a fact, I flip fast on foes with fabulous fantastic flows.

  Big L

  Cuz, Fabulous, Flow

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• But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did
  they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Deployment, Principles, Events

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair [of St. Peter]; they are by no means ignorant of the fact that religion itself can never totter and fall while this Chair remains intact, the Chair which rests on the rock which the proud gates of hell cannot overthrow and in which there is the whole and perfect solidity of the Christian religion.

  Pope Pius IX

  Christian, Powerful, War

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• The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
  Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
  'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
  And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Stars, Struggle, Fighting

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25

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• Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy

  Saadi

  Enemy, Doe, Mercy

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• Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

  Vanna Bonta

  Ignorance, Space, Perspective

  "The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society". Book co-sponsored by The International Academy of Astronautics and The European Space Agency, February 2005.

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• I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Friendship, Burned, Candle

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.

  Sun Tzu

  Running, Art, Military

  Sun Tzu (2017). “El Arte de la Guerra – The Art of War (Sun Tzu)”, p.51, PLUTÓN EDICIONES X SL

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• This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.

  Euripides

  Sweet, Revenge, Justice

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Love, Promise, Youth

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.431

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• Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.

  George Washington

  Believe, Government, People

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.10

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• Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Sorrow, Four

  "Inventory" l. 1 (1926)

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• Reality, for all intents and purposes, is just life - the real world, pure and uncut, shot straight to the vein of our souls every day we draw breath. Whether it's good or bad, it's still reality; the opposite of illusion, the foe of fantasy, and the anchor that keeps us stuck on this plane. And thank Buddha it does, because some people need it in huge doses.

  Corey Taylor

  Real, Memorable, Anchors

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• The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

  Aristophanes

  Truth Is

  Aristophanes (1906). “Aristophanous Ornithes: The Birds of Aristophanes”

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• I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Believe, Long, People

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.725, Modern Library

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