"The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new."
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"The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy."
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"The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
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"To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment."
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"Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends."
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"Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers."
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"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads."
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"I don't think men are the enemy. I think women are the enemy."
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"When I heard the ghouls coming for you, all I cared about was reaching you in time. How often must I tell you that you mean more to me than vengeance? I can live without defeating my enemies, but I cannot live without you."
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"We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy."
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"If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you."
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"Enemy occupied territory is what the world is."
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"The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity."
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"You have so much to learn from your enemies."
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"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
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"All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?"
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"New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form."
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"It is easier to become entangled with an enemy than to disentangle oneself afterwards."
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"Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy."
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