"Never offend an enemy in a small way."
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"I was the first - I was extremely unpopular with the establishment of the United States, particularly the New York Times was always an enemy, and Time magazine, off and on, the enemy, because I said things and took positions that other people didn't do."
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"Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting."
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"Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy."
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"A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are commonly treated as enemies by it."
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"Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement."
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"But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!"
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"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."
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"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."
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"Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation."
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"The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
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"I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go away all that quickly. He's a pirate, which is about rum, sodomy and the lash, isn't it? So, to be able to keep things like that in my head, when I'm going to do a film for Disney, I'd been through the ringer. That was like infiltrating the enemy camp. I wasn't able to stop smiling."
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"I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way."
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"Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?"
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"Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry."
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"Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard."
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"The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal."
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"Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within."
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"Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them."
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"Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent."
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