#enemy

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. ↗

— Aesop

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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason. ↗

— John Astin

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so we have to have these wars. I think it's incumbent upon us to. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#barrel #common #common enemy #consumer #driven

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

#bomber #children #defense #enemy #get

The best is the enemy of the good. ↗

— Voltaire

#enemy #good

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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