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• I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer.

  Bertrand Russell

  Population, Birth Control, Way

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.85, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.

  Simone Weil

  Struggle, Innovation, Defenders

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.166, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

  Peter Singer

  Philosophy, Views, Triumph

  "'Last Generation': A Response". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 16, 2010.

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• You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Team, People, Needs

  "Steve LeVeille interviews Wynton Marsalis". Interview on WBZ Radio, radiofreesteve.wordpress.com. 1994.

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• At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spiritual, Atheist, Philosophical

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.47, Penguin

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• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Politics, Argument

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

  Piers Anthony

  Pain, Dangerous, Position

  Piers Anthony (1971). “Orn”, Avon Books

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• I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

  King Hussein I

  Simple, Israel, Lines

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• I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked.

  Alexis Arguello

  Running, Morning, Fighting

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• You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

  Michelle Wie

  Giving, Chance

  "Michelle Wie's Masters Quest Comes to End", www.foxnews.com. July 15, 2005.

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• It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

  Helen Dunmore

  Tyrants, Want, Obsession

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• Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Hype, Negativity, President

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• Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people.

  Bill Jenkins

  Ties, People, Political

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• If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

  Donna Brazile

  Vision, Gob, Defining

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• I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Men, President, Vices

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• My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

  Clay Pell

  Voting, Unions, Bakers

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• If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

  Mark Russell

  Politician, Libel, Ifs

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• I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

  Richard V. Allen

  Determination, Generosity, President

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• I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

  David Horowitz

  Rights, Views, Political

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• Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isnt that really quite incredible?

  Warren Christopher

  Strong, Election, Incredibles

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• Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Doe, Defense

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.88, Tuttle Publishing

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• Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.

  Edmund Rouse

  Might, Kick Ass, Get Up

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• The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  Cus D'Amato

  Running, Motivational Sports, Attitude

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• IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fire, Water, Becoming

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Men, Boxing

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