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In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.

 

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An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

 

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Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.

 

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

 

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

 

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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

 

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Arnold Toynbee:
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

 

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

 

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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

 

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

 

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

 

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

 

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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

 

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To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.

 

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

 

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

 

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Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

 

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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

 

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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

 

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.