Enemy Quotes
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You're comin' with me, you gotta be invisible. You walk by a hatch and you see the enemy, you become the hatch.
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For five thousand infantry would now cross the Kaitna at a place where men said the river was uncrossable, then fight an enemy horde at least ten times their number. ... The enemy had stolen a march, the redcoats had journeyed all night and were bone tired, but Wellesley would have his battle.
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I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.
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People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.
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The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is better to retreat a yard." This is called going forward without advancing, pushing back without using weapons. There is no greater misfortune than underestimating your enemy. Underestimating your enemy means thinking that he is evil. Thus you destroy your three treasures and become an enemy yourself. When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.
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Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
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In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
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You’d make an enemy out of me over a human?” The word “human” might as well have been “rodent.
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The influence of Sun Tzu on other North Vietnamese military strategists is harder to answer. Certainly many of the key leaders in Hanoi were aware of Sun Tzu and made use of his ideas - Vo Nguyen Giap applied many of these ideas in seeking out weak elements in the enemy's defenses, as did Truong Chinh, whose famous treatise, The Resistance Will Win (1947), cited the ideas of Mao Zedong as a model for the North Vietnamese to follow.
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We are held up by the radical Muslims as the enemy. So every time we go into one of these countries to do - we think - the right thing, we become propaganda for this radical movement.
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And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.
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If only I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could've won.
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Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy's will are not allowed that luxury.
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I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.
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The French were generous in giving us assistance in corps and army artillery, with its personnel, and we were confident from the start of our superiority over the enemy in guns of all calibers.
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God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
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Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.
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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
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We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.
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Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place.
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Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
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The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.
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Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.
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The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.
