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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Enemy

"If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Enemy

"To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Enemy

"If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
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"Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose."

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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Enemy

"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
Enemy

"When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."

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