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"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories."
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"All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault."
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"If we fight our enemy using the same inhumane and morally bankrupt techniques that we are trying to stop, we will simply become what we have beheld."
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"I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one."
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"Flee an enemy who knows your weakness."
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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
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"Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim."
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"Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free."
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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."
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"When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured."
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"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
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"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."
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"But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being, nor can the dead ever be brought back to life."
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"You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked."
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"Understand both yourself and your enemy, and you shall always emerge victorious."
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"If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve."
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"You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended."
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