"I can't afford a whole new set of enemies."

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"I can't afford a whole new set of enemies."

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"Better is the enemy of good."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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, English Philosopher

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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."

William James, American Philosopher

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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"I hate admitting that my enemies have a point."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser."

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"I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue."

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"Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore."

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"I can't afford a whole new set of enemies."

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"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."

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"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."

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"San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities."

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"Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash."

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"What is elegance? Soap and water!"

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"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."

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