"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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"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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Shana Alexander, American Journalist

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"I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave."

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Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief."

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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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"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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"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."

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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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"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."

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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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"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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"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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