"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."
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"Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them."
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"You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies."
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"I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it."
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"Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies."
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"He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant."
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"You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not."
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"The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend."
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"Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons."
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"The truth is, that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those, calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in His genuine words."
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"It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are."
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"You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'"
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"If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own, then I can concentrate and he must divide."
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"When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce."
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"How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy."
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"Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body."
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"Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would."
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"It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends."
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"We can learn even from our enemies."
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"In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance."
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