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Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
I will destroy my enemies by converting them to friends.
Max Lerner, fully Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner, aka Mikhail Lerner
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with enemies of humanity.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I
Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.
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Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Our worst enemies are those we carry about with us in our own hearts.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
We have to depend on our enemies to hear the truth.
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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
Excellence | Excellence |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
Hate is death, forgiveness is life. Forgiveness works the miracle of change. When Lincoln was asked whey he did not destroy his enemies he replied: “If I make my enemies my friends, don’t I then destroy them?”... Forgiveness is the way to personal peace.
Change | Death | Destroy | Forgiveness | Hate | Life | Life | Peace | Forgiveness |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.
The true warrior is always the last to pick up the lance or go to battle. His battles are fought with the lance of love and understanding. His enemies are prejudice, greed, and bad medicine, and the biggest battles are always fought within himself. So, do not go out upon the earth to battle unseen demons of the physical world, for your hatred will be like theirs. Instead, go out as a true warrior, with love and understanding.
Battle | Earth | Greed | Love | Prejudice | Understanding | Will | World |
Timothy Dwight, fully Timothy Dwight IV
It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety to behold the piety to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and providence - the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, the ocean, the storm, the earthquake, the volcano, the circuit of the seasons, and the revolutions of empires - without marking them all the mighty hand of god, and feeling strong emotions of reverence toward the Author of these stupendous works.
Leaving aside genetic surgery applied humans, I foresee that the coming century will place in our hands two other forms of biological technology which are less dangerous but still revolutionary enough to transform the conditions of our existence. I count these new technologies as powerful allies in the attack on Bernal's three enemies [the world, the flesh and the devil]. I give them the names 'biological engineering' and 'self-reproducing machinery'. Biological engineering means the artificial synthesis of living organisms designed to fulfil human purposes. Self-reproducing machinery means the imitation of the function and reproduction of a living organism with non-living materials, a computer-program imitating the function of DNA and a miniature factory imitating the functions of protein molecules. After we have attained a complete understanding of the principles of organization and development of a simple multicellular organism, both of these avenues of technological exploitation should be open to us.
Enough | Imitation | Means | Organization | Principles | Technology | Understanding | Will |