"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

Enemy, Mind, Needs

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"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

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

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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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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"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."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"We have met the enemy, and they are ours."

Oliver Perry, American Soldier

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"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view."

George Savile, English Politician

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"Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners."

Dennis Ross, American Diplomat

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"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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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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"Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die."

David Hackworth, American Soldier

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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

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"I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down."

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"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from."

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"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

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"Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind."

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"Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

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"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."

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"Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth."

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"He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled."

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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."

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