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

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

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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

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"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

"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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"To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

Age

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

People

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

People

"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

Heart

"A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house."

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"Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver."

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"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep."

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"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."

History

"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."

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"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."

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