"Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself."
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"Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?"
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"If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?"
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"It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target."
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"The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies."
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"In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility."
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"Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies."
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"I got enemies, I got a lotta enemies. Got a lotta people tryna drain me of my energy."
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"We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits in there that we could learn from."
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"I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more."
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"Your enemy is your own self in a different uniform."
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"We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally."
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"One person's enemy is another person's best friend. My favorite food might give you a rash."
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"Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It’s okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It’s just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don’t squander a single minute of it."
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"Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason."
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"Arms cannot be regarded as merchandise in our world. They should be delivered to the peoples asking for them for use against the common enemy without any charge at all, and in quantities determined by the need and their availability."
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"Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style."
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"I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one."
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"There is an enemy-maker in each of us. We make enemies of the people we love the most and the people we know the least."
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"Why I can't stand this phrase about I don't have any permanent enemies, any permanent friends, only permanent interests. I can't stand that. It's a matter of principles. What kind of integrity, what kind of morality do you have?"
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