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• Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

  William Godwin

  Genius, Too Much, Spirit

  William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.332

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• Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

  Sidney Hook

  Inspirational, Death, Past

  Sidney Hook (2002). “Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays”, Pyr Books

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• For Poland, the United States is the most important ally.

  Donald Tusk

  Important, United States, Poland

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• Science can teach us, and I think our hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supporters, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make the world a fit place to live.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heart, Thinking, Sky

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• Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

  Darren Shan

  Night, Paris, Chaos

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• Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Nuts, Want

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You’re already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you’ve got.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Hurt, Fighting, Easy

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• Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Cutting, Love Is, Perhaps Love

  Andrew Sean Greer (2008). “The Story of a Marriage”, p.102, Faber & Faber

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• We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

  John Eldredge

  Country, Kings, Heart

  "The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life You've Always Dreamed Of".

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• From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since the beginning of time, the ignorant had always screamed the loudest, herding the unsuspecting masses and forcing them to do their bidding. They defended their worldly desires by citing Scripture they did not understand. They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now, after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.

  Dan Brown

  Beautiful, Jesus, Struggle

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• Mencheres. Bones co-ruler, grandsire, Master vampire of incredible power, and the ally who unnerved me the most, had telekinetically held me down so Bones could boink me into submission enroute to the vampire holding cell? Sweet holy Jesus, let me have hallucinated hearing that!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sweet, Jesus, Cells

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• Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Winning, Looks, Anxious

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

  Honore de Balzac

  Coffee, Struggle, Moving

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• Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Country, War, Successful

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• So at least half the victors have instructed their mentors to request you as an ally. I know it can't be your sunny personality.” “They saw her shoot,” says Peeta with a smile. “Actually, I saw her shoot, for real, for the first time. I'm about to put in a formal request myself.” “You're that good?” Haymitch asks me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Real, Personality, Mentor

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.233, Scholastic Inc.

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• The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Secret, Mental Health, Ends

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup.

  Suzanne Collins

  Horse, Memories, Real

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.158, Scholastic Inc.

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• School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

  Craig Ferguson

  Book, School, Character

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• So, the thing we’re all not talking about,” he says. He gestures to me. “You almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now we’re all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.” “Pansycake?” says Christina. “Dauntless slang.” Lynn smirks. “Supposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.” “Because it’s so offensive,” says Uriah, nodding. “No. Because it’s so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?” “And a half,” he says.

  Veronica Roth

  War, Stupid, Thinking

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• We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless. -Tori

  Veronica Roth

  Needs, Don't Need You, Dauntless

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• We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f...k you're talking about.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Country, Real, Believe

  "Fictional character: Will McAvoy". "The Newsroom". Season 1, Episode 1: "We Just Decided To", www.imdb.com. June 24, 2012.

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• Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

  Yasmine Galenorn

  Powerful, Enemy

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• I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. My only ally is the tagged dissolute. The tagged dissolute. That is the only cross on which I wish to be crucified. Though ten thousand people criticize me, I can throw in their teeth my challenge: Are you not all the more dangerous for being without tags?

  Osamu Dazai

  Liars, People, Fake

  "The Setting Sun".

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• Homophobia and the closet are allies. Like an unhealthy co-dependent relationship they need each other to survive. One plays the victim living in fear and shame while the other plays the persecutor policing what is ‘normal’. The only way to dismantle homophobia is for every gay man and lesbian in the world to come out and live authentic lives. Once they realise how normal we are and see themselves in us….the controversy is over.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Gay, Men, Play

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• Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis prefer building Jewish settlements on Palestinians' land instead. Moreover, Israel's rulers oppose any development-such as an Iranian-U.S. detente-that could diminish Israel's U.S.-financed hegemony in the region. War with Iran would be a catastrophe all around. Netanyahu and his hawkish American allies-the same people who gave us the disastrous Iraq war and ISIS-must be repudiated.

  Sheldon Richman

  War, Isis, Iran

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