"Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped."

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Source : Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.130, Da Capo Press

Alex Haley

#Fighting Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.”
“Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving”
“I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there is some kind of sweeter, softer side to it.”
“For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well.”
“Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is quite a racket going on. Choices have to be made with respect to every mark. Not every mistake should be erased. Nor shall the unintelligible be left out. Order is there to be wrenched from the tangles of words. Results are impossible to measure. A clearing is drawn around the perimeter as if by a stick with a nail on the end.”
“EWW. I'm at lunch, the woman at the table next to me is breast feeding her baby with no coverup.”
“I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.”

Source : "Black Keys Drummer Patrick Carney Calls Napster Founder Sean Parker an 'A--hole' for Stealing Royalties" by Portia Medina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 26, 2012.

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