"Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies."

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"Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies."

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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."

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"Some enemies are part and parcel of our lives, we cannot destroy them without risking our own survival."

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

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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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."

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"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."

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

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"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."

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"In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers."

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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."

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"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."

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"Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium."

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"The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal."

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

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"The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium."

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"The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example."

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

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