#enemy

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

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No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me. ↗

— William Congreve

#hurts #i #learning #me

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal. ↗

— James Bovard

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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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