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• Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

  Saadi

  Anger, Opportunity, Hands

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• Time, the foe of man's dominion,
  Wheels around in ceaseless flight,
  Scattering from his hoary pinion
  Shades of everlasting night.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Time, Night, Men

  Thomas Love Peacock (1812). “The Genius of the Thames, Palmyra, and Other Poems”, p.97

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• If I work on a certain move constantly, then finally, it doesn't seem risky to me. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my foes, but it is not to me. Hard work has made it easy.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving

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• Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
  Pass the days of life's short measure,
  From the slow one counsel take,
  But a tool of him ne'er make;
  Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
  Nor the constant one as foe.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Tools, Pleasure

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.298, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Life, Finals, Form

  "The Irony of American History". Book by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1952.

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• The real Art of Peace is not to sacrifice a single one of your warriors to defeat an enemy. Vanquish your foes by always keeping yourself in a safe and unassailable position; then no one will suffer any losses. The Way of a Warrior, the Art of Politics, is to stop trouble before it starts. It consists in defeating your adversaries spiritually by making them realize the folly of their actions. The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Peace, Real

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.156, Shambhala Publications

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• Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Feet, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, 4th Of July, Tyrants

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Julius Caesar! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.213, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention.

  Talaat Pasha

  Christian, War, Order

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• By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
  Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world.
  The foe long since in silence slept;
  Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
  And Time the ruined bridge has swept
  Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
  On this green bank, by this soft stream,
  We set to-day a votive stone;
  That memory may their deed redeem,
  When, like our sires, our sons are gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Memories, Spring, Sleep

  "Concord Hymn" l. 1 (1837)

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• Expose foes wit my hocus pocus flows, they froze now suckas idolize my chosen blows

  Tupac Shakur

  Blow, Rapper, Flow

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• I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Champion, Identity, Excess

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms of the flesh. Because the conflict is spiritual so must the weapons.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Prayer, Reality

  Watchman Nee (2006). “Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons”, p.94, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Strong, War

  Sun Tzu (2010). “The Art of War”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony. In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

  Arnold Haultain

  Golf, Games, Racing

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• Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological and moral fight with your self; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

  Arnold Haultain

  Struggle, Fighting, Golf

  Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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• The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

  Paul Fleischman

  Life, Friendship, Eye

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• But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did
  they render unsound the negotiated purchases of fine businesses at sensible prices. Imagine the cost to us, then, if we had let a fear of unknowns cause us to defer or alter the deployment of capital. Indeed, we have usually made our best purchases when apprehensions about some macro event were at a peak. Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.

  Warren Buffett

  Deployment, Principles, Events

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall of a foe who had fought so long and valiantly, and had suffered so much for a cause, though that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Believe, Long, People

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.725, Modern Library

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• Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;
  To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.
  For here though death doth end their misery,
  I'll there begin their endless tragedy.

  Thomas Kyd

  Tragedy, Haste, Ease

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• The peril of this Nation is not in any foreign foe! We, the people, are its power, its peril, and its hope.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  People, Peril, Nations

  Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

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• The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

  William Galston

  Book, Taken, Political

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• Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Hurt, Love Is, Funny Things

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• There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Destiny, Men

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