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“Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.”

People Knows World Said States Whole Helping Wish United Enemy United States Weapons Gains Access Nuclear Whole World Als Allies Nuclear Weapons Engineers Pakistan Physicist Al Qaeda

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.”

“Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.”

Source: The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment

“Every time the enemy throws us off our guard, and we give way to temptation, he gains so much; he weakens us and strengthens himself; when we resist temptation, it strengthens the Saints and weakens the enemy.”

Way Giving Enemy Gains Saint Temptation

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.”

Strong Enemy Doubt Victory Terrible Devil Gains Terror Pseudo Invaders Pseudo Intellectuals

Author:Joseph Stalin

“We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.”

Use Faces Purpose Enemy Middle Gains West Oil East Innocent Middle East Brutal

Author:Karl Rove

“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?”

Knows Said Used Enemy Offers Gains Historical Terror Technique Administration Fantastic Irony Torture Suspects Confession Mccain Vietnamese

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.”

Reason Mistake Enemy Gains Excellent Maxims

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for fear everybody will laugh. Creativity has a lot to do with a willingness to take risks. Think about how children play. They run around the playground, they trip, they fall, they get up and run some more. They believe everything will be all right. They feel capable; they let go. Good businesspeople behave in a similar way: they lose $15 million, gain $20 million, lose $30 million and earn it back. If that isn't playing, I don't know what is!”

“Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.”

Giving Enemy Gains Possession Enjoyment Hinder

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”

“When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.”

Men Two Women Enemy Wife Married Gains Sympathy Married Women One Friend

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.”

Way War Certain Order Enemy Victory Gains March Total War Veterans Day Honoring Our Veterans Great Veterans Day Thank A Veteran Thank You Veteran Veteran Appreciation Veterans Day Appreciation

Author:Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

“Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.”

War Force Enemy Victory Gains Deceit Honorable Commanders Stratagem Vanquish

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.”

Men Enemy Gains Roots Conquer Desirable Unrighteousness

Book:Lectures, addresses

Source: Lectures, addresses

“You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.”

Enemy Gains Reconciliation

Author:Rubin Carter

“He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.”

Reason Nations Loss Half Enemy Millions Laughing My Friends Gains Red Jew Bargains Mock Scorned

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errorsäó_

“There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. Thus, to take a long and circuitous route after enticing the enemy out of the way, and though starting after him to contrive to reach the goal before him, shows knowledge of the artifice of deviation.”

Source: Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text

“Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm”

Littles Art War Enemy Gains Enthusiasm Convince Diminish Art Of War Attacking

Author:Sun Tzu