"Fear God, and your enemies will fear you."
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"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
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"The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished."
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"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy."
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"You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems."
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"The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter."
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"Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of"
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"The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power."
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"Never speak words that allow the enemy to think he's winning."
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"The speed, accuracy and devastating power of American Artillery won confidence and admiration from the troops it supported and inspired fear and respect in their enemy."
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"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
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"He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily."
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"Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do."
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"The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
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"If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient."
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"To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing."
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"Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children."
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"Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them."
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"It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy."
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"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."
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