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Great Enemy Quotes

Quotes naming truth's, love's, and focus's real enemies.

The sharpest line here argues the great enemy of truth isn't the deliberate lie but persistent, persuasive myth, a real Challenge to clear thinking. Another recalls studying Russian during the Cold War's ideological Conflict.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

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Nov 07, 2020

I had studied Russian in college. I had gotten into it first through literature and then just really found it kind of fascinating; of course, this was during the Cold War. So they were kind of the other great enemy that you grew up hearing about.

Quotes by Scott Shane

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Nov 07, 2020

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Quotes by Samuel Richardson

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Nov 07, 2020

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

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Nov 07, 2020

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Quotes by Henri Nouwen

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Nov 07, 2020

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Quotes by Henri Nouwen

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Nov 07, 2020

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.

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Nov 07, 2020

The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

Quotes by Dan Stevens

Two more quotes name unexpected enemies: a full meal working against study and industry, and fear working against intimacy, since love is called its true friend and best Resolution.

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