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"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other."
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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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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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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."
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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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"Better is the enemy of good."
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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."
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"Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction."
Distinction
"That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me."
Skepticism
"Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me."
People
"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."
Being
"If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better."
Body
"Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is."
Liberal
"I think it's one of the Times' problems that they haven't made it clear to readers what various formats mean."
Problems
"I'm afraid we'll see reporters stop chasing quotes around the same time dogs stop chasing cars."
Time
"Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other."
Enemy
"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner."
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