"Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world."
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"Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach"
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"Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency."
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"There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work."
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"Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues."
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"Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy."
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"Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next."
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"We had the Berlin Wall; we had walls everywhere. But we always looked at the wall as kind of like the outside of the wall is the enemy. Are we looking at Mexico as the enemy? No, it's not. These are our trading partners."
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"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."
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"Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy."
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"All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy."
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"There's no doubt that I've deserved my enemies, but I don't think I've deserved my friends."
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"Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you."
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"Serving your enemies is the fastest way to learn to love them."
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"O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies."
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"The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on."
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"You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said."
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"Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him."
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"I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy."
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"He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy."
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