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• I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

  Roy Cohn

  Defeat, Worst

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• The biggest enemy is doubt. If you don’t believe in what you are doing, you aren’t going to make it.

  Philippe Kahn

  Believe, Doubt, Doing You

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• Friends provoked become the bitterest of enemies.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Friendship, Provoked

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Taste, Comedy

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• An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

  Sophocles

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

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• It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.

  Learned Hand

  Spiritual, War, Weakness

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• Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Time, Healer, Stealers

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• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Fighting, Risk, Doe

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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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Strong, Believe, Army

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.250

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• We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Moving, Night

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• My political enemies I can freely forgive; but as for who abused me when I was serving my country in the field, and those who attacked me for serving my country -- Doctor, that is a different case.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Doctors, Political

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• A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

  Plutarch

  Soldier, Said, Fallen

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Love, Stress, Night

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• Community is and must be inclusive. The great enemy of community is exclusivity. Groups that exclude others because they are poor or doubters or divorced or sinners or of some different race or nationality are not communities; they are cliques--actually defensive bastions against community.

  M. Scott Peck

  Race, Community, Groups

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• King Agis said, "The Lacedæmonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."

  Plutarch

  Kings, Said, Asks

  "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders". 58 Agis. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

  Eartha Kitt

  Fear, Creating, Risk

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• Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

  Plutarch

  Freedom, Conquer

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• Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

  Winifred Holtby

  Time, Betray

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House

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• Everything we do is in service of our needs. When this one concept is applied to our view of others, we'll see that we have no real enemies, that what others do to us is the best possible thing they know to do to get their needs met.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Real, Views, Needs

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World”, p.11, PuddleDancer Press

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• Enemies are an indication of character.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Character, Indication

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Bat”, p.60, Booklassic

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• How could science be an enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the earth and subject it?

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Science, Men, Earth

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• Therefore, your mistakes and your failures are blessings; opportunities for the best in parenting. And those who point out your mistakes are not your enemies, but the most valuable of friends.

  William Martin

  Children, Mistake, Blessing

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• The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Done, May, Politics

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

  Will Oldham

  Cities, Made

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• To persuade your enemy to (retreat) before the fight is to defeat them even before the battle begins. An enemy made ally is no longer an enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Fighting, Battle, Allies

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