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• When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

  Dean Martin

  Gambling, Tables, Aces

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• You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. Therefore, that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Safety, Doe

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• Poincaré was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Logic, Mathematics, Theory

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• ...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences.

  Aristotle

  Science, Differences, Views

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.1731, Modern Library

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• We are at a good level. Our secret is that we play the same way against each opponent.

  Lionel Messi

  Soccer, Play, Secret

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• Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Violence, Courtesy

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• Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It is easy to arrange that your guest opponent shall be deceived in to undertipping his caddie at the end of the morning round, so that the news gets round among the club employees that your opponent is a no good, and the boys will gang up against him.

  Stephen Potter

  Morning, Golf, Boys

  Stephen Potter (1950). “Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship”

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• As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

  Joseph Goebbels

  History, Holocaust, Nazism

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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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• Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Couple, Party, Fighting

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• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, War, Army

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Creative, Pounds

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• When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Writing, Views

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• Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.

  Jorge Valdano

  Funny, Football, Tree

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• It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

  Johan Cruijff

  Football, Winning, Simple

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• When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Sports, Art, Real

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• I can remember a case where Capablanca worked out an impressive combination, but then chose to make a simple move in answer to which his opponent resigned at once!

  Alexander Kotov

  Moving, Simple, Answers

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• Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

  Bobby Fischer

  Crush, War, Chess Game

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• A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Fighting, Games, Chess Game

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• Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Games, Chess Game, Worry

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• No matter who our opponents are, or who we are playing against, we want to win the game.

  David Beckham

  Football, Winning, Games

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• What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

  Jimmy Hill

  Football, Team, Games

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• Its just you and your opponent at the board and you're trying to prove something

  Bobby Fischer

  Trying, Boards, Chess

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• That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

  Bobby Fischer

  Learning, Chess Game, Next Day

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• Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

  Akiba Rubinstein

  Chess Pieces, Black, Tonight

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