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• The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

  Aesop

  Mean, Eagles, Arrows

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• If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

  Plato

  Wise, Kindness, Men

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• Even a captured enemy is not to be trusted.

  Chanakya

  Political, Captured, Trusted

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• The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.

  Ted Malloch

  Economy, Social, Social Capital

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  Os Guinness

  Sweet, Heart, Demand

  "Have a Drink of Guinness". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. November 5, 2012.

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• I have never heard of a tradition among Jews that encourages us to support each others' differences. Quite the contrary. What I've always been taught is that Jews forever see each other as bitter enemies whose differences are irreconcilable.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Differences, Support, Forever

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.

  Ann Bridge

  Good Life, Ideas, World

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.18, A&C Black

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• Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Trying, Should

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Romantic, Enlightenment, Passionate

  Isaiah Berlin (2013). “Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder”, p.320, Princeton University Press

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• Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy.

  Ingrid Weir

  Reality, Acknowledge

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• When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.

  Harold Evans

  Fall, Friendly, Invasion

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2009.

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• If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Want, Progression, Ifs

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• We are stone enemies when the bell rings

  Muhammad Ali

  Bells, Stones, Rings

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2012

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• Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

  Benedict of Nursia

  Soul, Idleness

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• 'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

  Meg Whitman

  Perfect, Good Enough, Enough

  Meg Whitman, Joan O'C Hamilton (2010). “The Power of Many: Values for Success in Business and in Life”, p.60, Crown Business

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• Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

  Pablo Picasso

  Weapons, Painting, Used

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• Smuggle out the truth, pass it through all the obstacles that its enemies fabricate; multiply, spread by all means possible her message so that she may triumph; through zeal and civic action counterbalance the influence of money and the machinations lavished on the propagation of deception. That, in my opinion, is the most useful activity and the most sacred duty of pure patriotism.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Mean, Deception, May

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• If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Compassion, Treasure, Priceless

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• A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush.

  Robert Jordan

  Break Through, Stronger, Weak

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.498, Macmillan

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• [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

  Joan Fontaine

  Daughter, Children, Giving

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• Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

  Jon Meacham

  Sometimes, Failing, Conspiracy

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• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

  David Seabury

  Courage, Powerful, Animal

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• Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

  Barry Lopez

  Loneliness, Exercise, Night

  FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Jul 30, 2014

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• If anyone wants to know what the definition of 'dope' means, it's: 'Definition of Public Enemy.

  Flavor Flav

  Mean, Dope, Definitions

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• After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Survival, Survivor, Eighty

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