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"I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts."
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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."
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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."
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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
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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."
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"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."
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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."
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"Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it."
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
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"Better is the enemy of good."
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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."
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"I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode."
Life
"Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody."
Life
"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him."
Sex
"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more."
People
"Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage."
Marriage
"I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way."
People
"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."
Death
"I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed."
Money
"It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe."
Politics
"Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat."
Hair
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