A Quote by Brent Scowcroft
We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.
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The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.
If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.
It is my conviction that nothing enduring
can be built on violence.
The only safe way to overcome an enemy
is to make of that enemy a friend.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.
I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make your move when they do not expect it.
What good is a friend if you cant make an enemy of him?
We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.
Basically, Twitter can be your best friend or your worst enemy, and I try to make it my best friend and take it for what it is.
An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person.
I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.
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