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• Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake. Persian Proverb
• Always be diplomatic before inserting a knife in your enemy's back.
• There is one tactical principle that remains unchanged.
  It is:to so use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of destruction on the enemy, in the minimum time....
• Be smart as a cat: Make a friend of your enemy's enemy.
• Homer: [reading] Cosby's First Law of Inter-generational Perversity
  No matter what you tell your child to do, he will always do the opposite....
• The snake has now devoured your bird.
• Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. -- Edward Abbey
• It is better to decide between our enemies than our friend
  for one of our friends will most likely become our enemy...
• Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness. -- Betrand Russell