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"Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies."
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"Our enemies are quite good for relentlessly keeping us sharp and on our toes. This especially goes for sincere philosophers. They use their enemies to challenge their arguments so that they can know the weak points in their own reasoning and how to argue for and strengthen their position. There are just none like one's enemies to always look for his mistakes and do it harder than anyone else."

"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

"Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not."

"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
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"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."

"We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less."

"The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption."

"At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well."

"A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology."

"The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians."

"Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats."

"From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty."
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