"Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant."
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"The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate."
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"Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution."
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"From a certain point of view our real enemy, the true troublemaker, is inside."
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"Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population."
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"Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm"
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"Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends."
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"One can make more enemies as a female with a brain, I think."
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"If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you."
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"Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own."
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"Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness."
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"As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy."
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"Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time."
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"Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved."
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"Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind."
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"Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like."
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"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
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"Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation."
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"When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends."
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"Everyone is curious about the intentions of their enemies."
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