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• There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Encounters, Doe

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• In the long run, truth is aided by nothing so much as by opposition.

  William Ellery Channing

  Running, Long, Truth Is

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Remarks on the slavery question: in a letter to Jonathan Phillips, esq”, p.4

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• If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

  Peter Shilton

  Soccer, Way, Censorship

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• Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

  Lucretia Mott

  Foundation, Privilege, Shakes

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• It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine faith, great faith is revealed only when we serve and trust God in the hard times, the times of suffering, loss, and opposition. That's the kind of faith that makes the world sit up and take notice.

  Ray Stedman

  Jobs, Book, Loss

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• The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Heaven, Littles

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.53, Routledge

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• I suppose politicians have always wanted to get re-elected, but there's a kind of a feeling now that if you just discredit your opposition, it makes it easier for you to win. I don't think that's necessarily true.

  George McGovern

  Thinking, Winning, Discredit You

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• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Real, War, Views

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• Opposition doesn't mean to take arms and kill people and destroy everything.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Mean, People, Arms

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

  Emil Ruder

  Mean, Order, Design

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• The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

  Antony Jay

  Facts, Exile, Civil Service

  Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay (1988). “The complete Yes, Minister: the diaries of a cabinet minister”, HarperCollins

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• Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Guarantees, Existence

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• Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

  Marquis de Sade

  Devil, Conviction, Insufficiency

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• I guess 35 years ago, I thought we had more of a democracy than we actually do. Majority support doesn't help unless the majority is active and votes - but the opposition minority votes a much greater proportion, so we often lose by a narrow margin.

  Gloria Steinem

  Years, Support, Democracy

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• The highest form of patriotism is dissent.

  Matthew Dowd

  Patriotic, Political, Form

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Swim, Taught

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• Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Enmity, Misuse, Made

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Humble, Mean

  Stephen M.R. Covey (2006). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Delight, Temper

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.341

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• An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

  Marie Corelli

  Opinion

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.58, The Floating Press

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• Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

  Jill Stein

  Political, Overcoming, States

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

  George Eliot

  Block, Men, Personality

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

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• This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Race, Years, House

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lady Londonderry, February 22, 1854.

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• You can do a lot things in the ensuing four years waiting to vote. You can drum up support or opposition.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Years, Support, Waiting

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

  Ann Landers

  Perseverance, Maturity, Sweat

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