"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race."

Enemy, Man, Race

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"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race."

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

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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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."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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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."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

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

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Better is the enemy of good."

Voltaire, French Writer

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

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."

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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

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"Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him."

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"I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit."

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"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."

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"No stone was laid upon another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been added to another in a mad scramble to fill the belly, and the streets smell of empty bellies and full bellies and bellies half full. The streets smell of a hunger which has nothing to do with love; they smell of the belly which is insatiable and of the creations of the empty belly which are null and void."

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"There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry."

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"Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us."

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"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."

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