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• The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Gun, Kuwait

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• Do you young people want a sure way to eliminate the influence of the adversary in your life? Immerse yourself in searching for your ancestors, prepare their names for the sacred vicarious ordinances available in the temple, and then go to the temple to stand as proxy for them to receive the ordinances of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. As you grow older, you will be able to participate in receiving the other ordinances as well. I can think of no greater protection from the influence of the adversary in your life

  Richard G. Scott

  Thinking, Names, People

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• A natural adversary is a customer service representative.

  Jon Jones

  Natural, Representatives, Customers

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• In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

  Eric Cantona

  Soccer, Football, Cinema

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

  Lucan

  Judging, Guilt, Sides

  "Pharsalia", VII. 263 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 345-346), 1922.

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• Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

  Thomas Merton

  Winning, Blood, Trying

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.192, Macmillan

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• The courts are run on COMMERCIAL CONTRACT LAW and that is has NOTHING to do with any IN-LAW procedures whatsoever. So the nature of the game is to OBTAIN a CONTRACT with your OPPONENT (Adversary) so that the court can acknowledge and RATIFY the contract and SETTLE and CLOSE the case and move on and if you understand that EVERYTHING in there is happening by way of CONTRACTS instead of trying to get the truth out then MAYBE you'll get the truth to prevail by following the CORRECT procedure to get them to acknowledge the truth by CONTRACTUAL CONSENT.

  Jack Smith

  Running, Moving, Law

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• It's like I'm married to the silencer,
  Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers.
  Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries,
  Put your snap back cap back, cap your capillaries.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Art, Rap, Divorce

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• There are no greater adversaries than yin and yang, because nothing in Heaven or on Earth escapes them. But it is not yin and yang that do this, it is your heart that makes it so.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Heaven, Yang

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• Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Friendship, Integrity, Men

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1865). “Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: Vol. 1”, p.464

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• It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement is to lead men astray from the plainest paths of reason and conviction.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Simple, Men, Path

  Alexander Hamilton (1831). “The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793”, p.58

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• Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

  James J. Martin

  Player, Games, Liberty

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• In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, War, Order

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1030, Simon and Schuster

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• They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?

  Patrick Henry

  Gun, Next Week, Years

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Independent, Men, America

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• Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sweet, Victory, Next

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.62

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• I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary.

  Chester Crocker

  Apology, Thinking, Rivalry

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• When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

  Eustace Budgell

  Success, Achievement, Victory

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• In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

  Charles Brown MacDonald

  Golf, Player, Caddies

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• Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

  Lionel Trilling

  Writing, Judging, Giving

  Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (2009). “The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays”, p.552, Northwestern University Press

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• When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the "conqueror" observes and continues to rule.

  Brian Day

  Health, Government, Common Threads

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• The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Liars, Blessing

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• There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed even the most minor hostile act against a Jewish person or Jewish property. As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. There just are people, organizations, that need an adversary and they want the public to believe that this adversary is dangerous.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Believe, Organization, People

  "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• If you could extend the elective franchise to all persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars and pay taxes thereon, and would completely disarm the adversary. This you can do with perfect safety. And as a consequence, the radicals, who are wild upon negro franchise, will be completely foiled in their attempts to keep the Southern States from renewing their relations to the Union.

  Andrew Johnson

  Real, Writing, Color

  Andrew Johnson (1967). “The Papers of Andrew Johnson: May-August 1865”, p.599, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Looks, Vigor

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.107, Tara Publishing

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