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"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer" The famous quote by Michael Corleone said in Godfather is often heard but not everyone quite understood in its true essence. We want to keep friends close in order to enrich our lives. We're also inclined to judge our interpersonal relations with the degree of "closeness" we associate them with. It is a human's tendency to ignore real threats and stay in the illusion of safety and comfort one feels when surrounded by loved ones. But this does not magically eradicate our problems like they never existed in the first place. This is the kind of proverb that makes you truly think. This goes against our natural instinct ;To be close with the ones who are capable of doing most harm to
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