"Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot."
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"The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.""
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"All warfare is based on deception. If your enemy is superior, evade him. If angry, irritate him. If equally matched, fight and if not: split and re-evaluate."
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"When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal."
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"Therefore, to estimate the enemy situation and to calculate distances and the degree of difficulty of the terrain so as to control victory are virtues of the superior general."
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"To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation."
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"As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."
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"Complacency is the enemy of study."
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"Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind"
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"To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer our enemy."
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"Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]"
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"All men are enemies. All animals are comrades"
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"To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on."
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"More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat."
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"The enemy is not the other, the enemy is you"
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"A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points."
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"Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things."
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"Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality."
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"If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you."
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"Good taste is the enemy of creativity."
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