"Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us."
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"The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders."
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"I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends."
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"Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline."
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"When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy."
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"At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies."
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
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"Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests."
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"Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy."
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"To plan secretly, to move surreptitiously, to foil the enemy's intentions and balk his schemes, so that at last the day may be won without shedding a drop of blood."
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"For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death."
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"We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness."
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"When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you."
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"A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?"
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"Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy."
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"We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders."
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"Fear is the enemy of logic."
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"Perfectionism is the enemy of profitability."
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"Reason is the enemy of faith."
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"Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy."
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