"By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal."
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"Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better."
"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."
"A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor."
"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."
"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them."
"Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace."
"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture."
"The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness."
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
"I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me."
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
"If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend."
"If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies."
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."
"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."