"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor."
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"For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group."
"You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence."
"Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species."
"There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them"
"The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy."
"The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies."
"Enemies make better allies than frenemies."
"The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally"
"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."
"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."
"Submission to duty and God gives the highest energy. He, who has done the greatest work on earth, said that He came down from heaven, not to do His own will, but the will of Him who sent Him, Whoever allies himself with God is armed with all the forces of the invisible world."
"Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder"
"In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt."
"There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that."
"Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom."
"I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end."
"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."
"If you consciously let your body take care of you, it will become your greatest ally and trusted partner."
"The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally."
"Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took."