"I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies."
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"People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies."
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"As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him."
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"To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him."
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"He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him."
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"I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it."
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"It is good to be taught even by an enemy"
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"It's right to learn, even from the enemy."
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"Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies."
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"Right it is to be taught even by the enemy."
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"When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there."
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"When you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country."
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"A man has no enemy worse than himself."
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"Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war."
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"Americans are fickle. And what constitutes the enemy is always changing. Believe it or not, at one time Blacks were the favored model minority over Asian Americans."
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"The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves."
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"However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her."
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"When we seek reconciliation with our enemies, it is commonly out of a desire to better our own condition, a being harassed and tired out with a state of war, and a fear of some ill accident which we are willing to prevent."
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"Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own."
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"My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy."
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