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It is permitted to learn even from an enemy.

—Ovid, c. 8

Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.

—Roman proverb

Don’t hit a man at all if you can avoid it, but if you have to hit him, knock him out.

—Theodore Roosevelt, 1916

I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!

—Willa Cather, 1915

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

—Sigmund Freud, 1930
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