Enemy Quotes
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Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.
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But age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.
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Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.
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In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.
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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
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A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
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The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
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Whatever an enemy might do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, the ill-directed mind can do to you even worse.
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The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.
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When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.
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It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are.
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Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
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Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.
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To you who answered the call of your country and served in its Armed Forces to bring about the total defeat of the enemy, I extend the heartfelt thanks of a grateful Nation. As one of the Nation's finest, you undertook the most severe task one can be called upon to perform. Because you demonstrated the fortitude, resourcefulness and calm judgment necessary to carry out that task, we now look to you for leadership and example to further exalting our country in peace.
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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
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Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
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The Christian does not hurt even his enemy.
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The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.
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Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
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The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty
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When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.
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Haste, the great enemy.
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Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.
