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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed. ↗

— Anne Rice

#bibliophiles #book-lovers #willful-ignorance #zealotry #enemy

Friends are nothing but a known enemy ↗

— Kurt Cobain

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May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't. ↗

— George S. Patton Jr.

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It means 'Shadowhunters: looking better in black than the widows of our enemies since 1234 ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #clary-fray #jace #enemy

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. ↗

— Isaac Newton

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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#war #enemy

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. ↗

— Emily Brontë

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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#hunger-games #pity #vengeance #enemy

There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#perception #science #science

Don't mistake activity with achievement. ↗

— John Wooden

#acquirement #act #action #activity #attainment