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Enemy Quotes
"To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies."
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"I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one."
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"I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts."
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"There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good."
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"A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate."
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"The tocsin you hear today is not an alarm but an alert: it sounds the charge against our enemies."
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"Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die."
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"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."
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"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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"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
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"Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies."
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"Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them."
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"Found everybody in a terrible state of excitement on account of the enemy's advance upon this place."
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"Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation."
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"If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril."
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"The newspaper is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman."
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"I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either."
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"I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs."
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"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."
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"We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion."
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"The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park."
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"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."
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"The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right."
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"Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles."
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"Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality."
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"The enemies of freedom will not prevail."
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"Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies."
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