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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

Enemy, Enemies, Reason, Want

"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Enemy, Enemies, Man

"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Enemy, Enemies, Existence, Struggle

"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Enemy,

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Enemy, Enemies, Gifts

"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."

George Orwell, British Author

Enemy, Insincerity, Language, Words

"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."

James Bovard, American Author

Enemy, Example, Scandal

"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."

William James, American Philosopher

Enemy, May, Rest

"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

Enemy, Enemies, Forget, Golf, Hate

"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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"Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern."

Work

"It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom."

Freedom

"To have character is to be big enough to take life on."

Life

"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."

Imagination

"It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on."

Faith

"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."

Knowledge

"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."

May

"Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape."

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"Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will."

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