"The best time to stop a fight is before it starts. The best vitamin for developing friends is B1. The best way to destroy an enemy in to make him a friend."
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"The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends."
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"It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy."
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"Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve."
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"In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies."
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"Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?"
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"The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies"
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"The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him."
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"People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other."
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"What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies."
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"People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know."
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"The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time."
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"You cannot blame everything on the enemy."
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"Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility."
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"Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you."
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"I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all."
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"Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend."
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"But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority"
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"This is no time to be making new enemies."
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"The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have."
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