"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

Enemy, Execution, Succeed

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"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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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

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

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"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

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"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

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

Henry Miller, American Author

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"I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever."

William Shirley, British Politician

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"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

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"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

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"It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope."

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"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better."

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"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."

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"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."

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