"When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend."
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"The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you"
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"Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear"
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"It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it."
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"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
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"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."
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"If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend."
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"Environmentalists are a socialist group of individuals that are the tool of the Democrat Party. I'm proud to say that they are my enemy. They are not Americans, never have been Americans, never will be Americans."
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"God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies."
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"The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry."
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"It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
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"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes."
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"Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe."
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"Against those skilled in attack, an enemy does not know where to defend; against the experts in defense, the enemy does not know where to attack."
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"What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?"
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"Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically"
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"With the CGI, suddenly there's a thousand enemies instead of six - the army goes off into the horizon. You don't need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That's something that's consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that's a soulless enterprise. It's all kinetics without emotion."
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"He has no worse enemy than himself."
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"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."
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"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence."
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