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"Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
"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."
"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."
"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence."
"Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can."
"You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out."
"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA."
"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."
"But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media."
"In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something."
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