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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
Enemy

"You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves."

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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
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"Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God."

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Pythagoras Philosopher, Mathematician
Enemy

"We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
Enemy

"The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic
Enemy

"When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies."

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