"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."

Enemy, Enemies, Learning, Necessity

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"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies."

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Shana Alexander, American Journalist

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"Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them."

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"The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer."

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"What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other."

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"No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me."

William Congreve, English Poet

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"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."

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"Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement."

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