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• You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

  Eric Hoffer

  Clever, Fear, Halloween

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you.

  J. G. Ballard

  Creativity, Thinking, Today

  Interview with Kate Mikhail, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• Food is neither your enemy nor your best friend. It won't mend your broken heart and it won't send you to hell.

  Emme

  Food, Heart, Broken

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• He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Freedom, Fear

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.1336, e-artnow

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• The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

  Jim DeMint

  America, Mind, World

  "Come Together" by Hendrik Hertzberg, www.newyorker.com. March 8, 2010.

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• See your enemies, not as God's failures, but as God's projects.

  Max Lucado

  Projects

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• If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself, rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “Prayer, Praise & Promises: A Daily Walk Through the Psalms”, p.22, Baker Books

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• I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy's intentions.

  Thucydides

  Mistake, Intention, Dread

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• The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person because I need them.” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be the way I want.” This isn’t love at all - it is attachment - and attachment is rigid, it is very different from love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Love You, Love Is, Attachment

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honour.

  Vo Nguyen Giap

  Media, Do Not Fear, Honour

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• An enemy of yours is an enemy of mine; an enemy of mine is an enemy of yours; if an enemy of mine is not an enemy of yours, then you're an enemy of mine.

  John Yang

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• The gift our enemy may be able to bring us: to see aspects of ourselves that we cannot discover any other way than through our enemies. Our friends seldom tell us these things; they are our friends precisely because they are able to overlook or ignore this part of us. The enemy is thus not merely a hurdle to be leaped on the way to God. The enemy can be the way to God. We cannot come to terms with our shadow except through our enemies.

  Walter Wink

  Shadow, May, Able

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• You cannot blame everything on the enemy.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Responsibility, Blame

  Gene Wolfe, Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree (1975). “The new Atlantis and other novellas of science fiction”

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Design, Soul, Intention

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.170

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• Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.

  Duncan Green

  Ideas, People, Curiosity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Doe

  "The Carpet People". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1971.

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• Easy times are the enemy, they put us to sleep. Adversity is our friend, it wakes us up

  Dalai Lama

  Adversity, Sleep, Easy

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• Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

  Euripides

  Worst Enemy, Your Best Friend, Worst

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1974). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.

  Arthur Kemp

  Opposites, Diversity, Goal

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• Negativity is the enemy of creativity. For instance if you're filled with depression, you can hardly even get out of bed, let alone feel like creating something. If you are filled with bitter, selfish anger, this occupies the mind and leaves little room for creative ideas.

  David Lynch

  Selfish, Creativity, Ideas

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Lying, Cutting

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• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Opportunity

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• But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Important, Treacherous

  Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.292, Penguin

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• Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Scratches, Foe

  "Ballade of a Great Weariness" l. 8 (1926)

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• To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Conquer, Strategy

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