"The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment."
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"My enemy is my greatest teacher."
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"Our enemies are our greatest teachers."
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"If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way."
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"The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called."
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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."
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"Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies."
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"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them."
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"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it."
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"Ironically, the single thing that has strengthened Iran over the last several years has been the war in Iraq. Iraq was Iran's mortal enemy. That was cleared away. And what we've seen over the last several years is Iran's influence grow. They have funded Hezbollah, they have funded Hamas, they have gone from zero centrifuges to 4,000 centrifuges to develop a nuclear weapon."
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"Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems."
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"He also chooses his enemies."
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"He however knows when the enemy is stronger."
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"Never make a fuss-it might attract the attention of an enemy tribe."
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"The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend."
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"The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side."
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"Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world."
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"The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate."
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"The greatest enemy to love is your pride"
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"King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.""
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