"Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica)."
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"In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty."
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"Enemies of the Heir, beware! You'll be next, Mudbloods!"
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"Adequacy is the enemy of excellence."
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"It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike."
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"I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine."
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"The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets."
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"Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid."
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"Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'"
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"Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace."
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"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."
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"To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty."
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"Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."
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"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."
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"Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."
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"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."
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"We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty."
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"Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality."
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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."
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"When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor."
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