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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
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"Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies."

Men Enemy Tragedy
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"Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies."

People Enemy Nymphs
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Thomas E. Mann Political Scientist
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"You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown."

Firsts Order Enemy
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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy."

Men Enemy Gossip
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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
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"The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things."

Men Running Enemy
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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up."

Creativity Enemy Creative
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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute."

Goal Enemy Determination
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Mao Zedong Politician, Revolutionary
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"A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience."

Doe Enemy Lines
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Jack London Novelist, Journalist
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"Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!"

Practice Enemy Civilization
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Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian
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"For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new."

Order Might Enemy
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