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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."
"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."
"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."
"Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free."
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"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."
"Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play."
"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing."
"With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves."
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