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Enemy Quotes
Knowing what stands against you.
A good portion of this collection reads like strategic thinking, from classic wartime doctrine about minimizing harm to yourself while maximizing pressure on an opponent, to the idea that understanding your own culture matters just as much as reading an adversary. See Friend for the flip side of this theme.
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There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
- Impossible
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Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
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In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them.
- Good Deal
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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Suits are malevolent magicians' sleeves for socialists, full of patrician loops and tricks, small, embroidered, cryptic messages of deference and privilege. They are ever the uniform of the enemy. They are also the greatest British invention ever.
- Culture
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
- Endeavour
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If any among you covet riches, let him endeavour to overcome, for the victorious not only preserve their own possessions but acquire those of the enemy.
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The cortex is the enemy.
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