"Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends."
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"Enemies make better allies than frenemies."
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"Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy."
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."
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"I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!"
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"The great enemy of morality is indifference."
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"For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep."
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"Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.)"
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"Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate."
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"Defeat the enemies strategy."
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"You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power."
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"I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to."
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"Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way."
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"The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility."
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"I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets."
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"If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway"
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"No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy."
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"Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body."
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"It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is"
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"Delay is the enemy of progress."
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