Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
Karen DeCrow
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
J. F. C. Fuller
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
Flavor Flav
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Early Wynn
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Samuel Butler
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty
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I am not an enemy of Adventism.
Walter Martin
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.
Balthazar Getty
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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
Adam Clarke
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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
Rand Paul
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving
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Someone else is going to read for me or go at my place to the mosque, and/or to tell me you shouldn't take anything from the West because the West is the enemy and so on. It is to me to decide. I am intelligent enough to be critical towards the West and take what I need and reject what is bad for me.
Fatema Mernissi
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I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.
Taylor Dayne
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'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6
Pat Robertson
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There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.
S. C. Gwynne
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You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.
Paul Hoffman
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At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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Qui finem quaeris amoris,Cedit amor rebus; res age, tutus eris.
Ovid
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I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
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There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli