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• Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of ease, or sit idly with folded hands looking lazily out on fields white for the harvest, but where no sickle rings against the wheat.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Sleep, Men, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 344, 1895.

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• Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.

  Jose Marti

  Kings, Men, Self

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?

  Sun Myung Moon

  Children, Your Side, Judging

  "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 1-7. Judgement), 1980.

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• Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Friendship, Devil, Literature

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• Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cities, Dying, Ankh

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. (99)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Suffering, Unhappy, Faults

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Car, Toyota, Enemy

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

  Jeannette Walls

  Hate, Acceptance, People

  Jeannette Walls (2006). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• I just killed my best friend... and my worst enemy. What's the difference?

  Christian Slater

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Differences

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• There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist

  Boyd Rice

  Thinking, People, Care

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• The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Tired, Soul, Promise

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.232, SUNY Press

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• What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

  Karen Kain

  Dancer, Age, Sometimes

  "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

  Ben Nicholson

  Fall, Tyrants, Vision

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• Whoever would like to cherish such adders and puny devils - who are the worst enemies of Christ and us all - to befriend them and to do them honour simply in order to be cheated, plundered, robbed, disgraced, and forced to howl and curse and suffer every kind of evil, to him I would commend the Jews. And if this is not enough, let him tell the Jews to use his mouth as a privy, or else crawl into the Jew's hind parts, and there worship the holy thing, so as afterwards to be able to boast of having been merciful, and of having helped the Devil and his progeny to blaspheme our dear Lord.

  Martin Luther

  Order, Dear Lord, Evil

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• Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

  Tori Amos

  Morning, Ignorance, Boys

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• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  Evo Morales

  Health, Reality, Uprising

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• Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

  Mark Lawrence

  Dream, Fear, Men

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.74, Penguin

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• Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.

  Pope Pius IX

  Christian, Religious, Catholic

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• There is no captive in a worse state than the one who is captivated by his worst enemy (Shaytan) and there is no prison which is tighter than the prison of hawa (desire) and there is no bond/fetter more strong than the bond of desire. How, then, will a heart which is captivated, imprisoned and fettered travel unto Allah and the Home of the Hereafter?

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Strong, Home, Heart

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• In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Courage, Believe, Russia

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• We have all learned everything we know physically—from walking to running a marathon—by trial and error, so there's no reason to become our own worst enemies when we suffer a setback. From time to time everyone falls short of their goals. It's an illusion to believe that champions succeed because they do everything perfectly. You can be certain that every archer who hits the bull's-eye has also missed the bull's-eye a thousand times while learning the skill.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Believe, Fall

  Amby Burfoot (2009). “Runner's World Complete Book of Running: Everything You Need to Run for Weight Loss, Fitness, and Competition”, p.176, Rodale

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• The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

  Max Eastman

  Men, Brain, Faces

  Max Eastman (1962). “Reflections on the failure of socialism”

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• Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make.

  Demi Lovato

  Choices, Mind, Your Best Friend

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• I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.35, Bantam

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• The worst enemy of the strategist is the clock. Time trouble... Reduces us all to pure reflex and reaction, tactical play. Emotion and instinct cloud our strategic vision when there is no time for proper evaluation.

  Garry Kasparov

  Play, Clouds, Vision

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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