Opponents Quotes - Page 25

• Do not let your opponent see your spirit

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Spirit

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• The most critical thing in a negotiation is to get inside your opponent's head and figure out what he really wants.

  Jacob Lew

  Want, Negotiation, Figures

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• The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.

  Michael Parenti

  Political, Constitution, Intimidation

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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• Candidates who win while spending less than their opponents still usually have to spend quite a lot. While not a surefire guarantor of victory, a large war chest -even if not the largest-is usually a necessary condition. Money may not guarantee victory, but the lack of it usually guarantees defeat. Without large sums, there is rarely much of a campaign, as poorly funded 'minor' candidates have repeatedly discovered.

  Michael Parenti

  War, Winning, Political

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• Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

  George Steiner

  Age, Done, Responsible

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• The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy.

  Sun Tzu

  Height, Strategy

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• On this tenth day of June, nineteen hundred and forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.... In our unity, in our American unity we will pursue two obvious and simultaneous courses; we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and at the same time we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves in the Americas may have equipment and training equal to the task of any emergency and every defense.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Hands, Order

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• It's like guerrilla warfare. If you reveal your location, all it does is allow your opponent to improve his artillery bearings. It's better to move quietly, with stealth, under cover of night. You've got two choices: You can wear cammies and shimmy along on your belly, or you can put on a red coat and stand up for everyone to see. It comes down to whether you want to be the British army in the Revolutionary War or the Viet Cong. History tells us which tactic was more effective.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  War, Moving, Army

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• I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

  Chris Bosh

  Matter, Cry, Faceless

  "Not a Third Wheel: A GQ&A with Chris Bosh". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. January 12, 2012.

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• A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Spirit, Wit

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• ... we shall never become an immense power in the world until we concentrate all our money and editorial forces upon one great national daily newspaper, so we can sauce back our opponents every day in the year; once a month or once a week is not enough.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Years, Sauce, Months

  Susan B. Anthony, Ida H. Harper (2017). “HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 2: The Trailblazing Documentation on Women’s Enfranchisement in USA, Great Britain & Other Parts of the World (With Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)”, p.281, e-artnow

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• Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

  Mason Cooley

  Memories, History, Creative

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• The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.

  Gilbert Highet

  Art, Real, Fighting

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• Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.

  Novalis

  Clever, Way, Revolution

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 105, 1798.

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• True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Home, Long

  First Speech Before the United Nations General Assembly (64th Session), delivered 23 September 2009, New York, NY

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• The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as 'Communists' or 'Fascists' by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Tired, America, Sick

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Believe, Giving, Deception

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• It's a basic, elemental universe, one of the last remaining zones where violence and domination sort out who is top dog. That's football's glory, and its curse. The game of football doesn't transfer well to the real world. You can't treat your friends, neighbors, or loved ones the way you treat your opponent on the football field.

  Tiki Barber

  Football, Dog, Real

  Tiki Barber, Gil Reavill (2008). “Tiki: My Life in the Game and Beyond”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000... no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

  Ronald H. Nash

  Christian, Religious, Moderates

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• Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.) (1987). “Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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• I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

  Karl Kraus

  Arrows, Fit

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Boxing, Goes On

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

  Bear Bryant

  Willing, Conditions

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• God ordains opposition so that he may prove to the opponents, who are many in number, to the few that God chooses to bless, that if God's hand is with that few, the many cannot oppose and be successful.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Successful, Hands, Numbers

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