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“... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ... that trickery is the real enemy and the very essence of the thing we must continually be on our guard against.”

Ideas Real Whole Humanity Fighting Enemy Losing Essence Trickery

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old.”

Age Today Values Grows Enemy Plans Worst Essence Aging Threat Old Age Saving Earning Inflation Savings Sap Financing

Author:Bernard Baruch

“The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, 'I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion for everyone are as much part of their being as breathing.”

Source: The Awakening Of Universal Motherhood: Geneva Speech

“Meta-Essence is the life-force of Wonderland. That of your enemies is especially potent. Collect what you can. Use it wisely.”

Use Force Enemy Essence Wonderland

Author:Cheshire Cat

“The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.”

“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.”

Men Believe I Believe Enemy Creatures My Friends Essence I Believe In Siddhartha Atman

Book:Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale

“After the Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after them and were drowned. God's angels wanted to celebrate the enemy's demise. God saw this and grew angry. He said, in essence, 'Stop celebrating. For they are my children,too.”

Children Said Wanted Enemy Saws Sea Grew Angel Red Essence Angry Celebrate My Children Demise Red Sea

Book:Have a Little Faith: A True Story

Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story

“Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.”

Inspirational Hate Christianity Enemy Love You Essence Profound Hate You Love Your Enemies

Author:Dave Brubeck

“Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.”

Way Art War Enemy Advantage Essence Spots Unexpected Routes Art Of War Strategist

Book:Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules

Source: Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules

“If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack, I should say: "Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will." Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.”

Ifs Way Should Art War Enemy Military Advantage Essence Dear Spots Opponents Unexpected Host Routes Art Of War Orderly Strategist Seizing Amenable

Book:The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China

Source: The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China

“The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.”

Law Enemy Essence Fascism

Book:A Plague of Secrets

Source: A Plague of Secrets

“Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.”

Ifs War Form Enemy Democracy Worst Development Healthy Conflict Essence Management Violent Balanced Worst Enemy Prevention Non Violent

Author:Kofi Annan

“All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.”

Men Wells Government Form Liberty Enemy Essence Organized Voting Exploitation Industrious

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.”

Self Earth Life Is Death Choices Loss Rooms Enemy Dying Activity Mass Essence Series Finals Oneself Block Variety Nerves Closing Containing Infirmity Atrophy Loss Of A Friend Closing Off

Author:Coleman Dowell