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“The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.”

Believe Persons Left Women Opponents

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity.”

Brain Losing Beats Blame Strategy Opponents Regularity

Author:William J. Clinton

“The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.”

Ifs Men Long Soul Golf Patient Opponents Old Man Be Patient Long Road

Author:Bobby Jones

“In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.”

Loss Moral Losing Discovery Argument Aim Conquer Opponents Disputes New Discoveries

Book:Of prudence

Source: Of prudence

“I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“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.”

Knows Struggle Capitalism Innovation Opponents Defenders Innovators

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“You can always tell the golfer who's winning: he's the one who keeps telling his opponent that it's only a game.”

Games Winning Opponents Golfers

Author:Evan Esar

“The whole conflict thus boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns in progress; our opponents do not.”

Whole Law Progress Return Conflict Degrees Opponents Minorities Diminishing Returns

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.”

War Individual Community Accepting Danger Glory Understood Opponents Acquire Ardor

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime empire like Athens. Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians in character, and also most successful in combating them.”

Want Two Character Energy Differences Successful Wide Opponents Enterprise Empires Athens Slowness Athenians Maritime

Book:The history of the Peloponnesian War: illustrated with maps from the 1820 Oxford edition

Source: The history of the Peloponnesian War: illustrated with maps from the 1820 Oxford edition

“Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent.”

Giving Believe Doe Remember Opinion Speech Dare Opponents Scope

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“Everybody is great and the chemistry is different with everyone. That is the joy of acting - you really don't know how it is going to go until you turn up. It's like playing tennis, you can't plan for the match you are going to play until you are actually up against your opponent and what happens, happens. That is the joy of being on set.”

Knows Different Play Happens Joy Turns Acting Know How Plans Opponents Tennis Chemistry

Author:Tom Hiddleston

“One should respect a defeated opponent!”

Should Opponents Defeated

Author:Alexander Khalifman

“Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.”

Looks Different Whole Facts Lasts Moral Dangerous Judgment Accounts Foundation Deny Accepted Versions Aliens Explanation Opponents Assurance Sap Moral Judgment

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“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.”

Humans Littles Philosophy Easy Views Argument Weak Satisfaction Limitation Triumph Opponents Score

Author:Peter Singer

“Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.”

Pay Attention Opinion Opponents Repeats Fancy

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.”

Ifs States Government Love Is Opponents Empires Benevolence

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

“If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Country Moments Use Opportunity Winning Loses Challenges Acting Talking Missing Serious Smart Tough Election Our Country Secure Opponents Partisans Playbooks

Author:Barack Obama

“From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.”

Mind Stills Character Courses Father Games Results Player Walking Shots Balls Mark Golf Opponents Score Flaws Preparing Courtesy Abiding Golf Course

Author:Arnold Palmer

“We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.”

People Way Animal Violence Car Picks Died Flesh Cruelty Oppression Opponents Ethical Inherent Non Violence

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Exchanging blows generously, which is not uncommon in some other martial arts, is unthinkable in Shaolin philosophy, because a Shaolin disciple always assumes that an opponent is competent and able to inflict damage with just one blow.”

Art Philosophy Able Art Is Assuming Blow Opponents Damage Just One Martial Arts Disciple Competent Uncommon Unthinkable Exchanging

Book:The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment

Source: The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment

“The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.”

Pleasure Politician Oneself Opponents Charm Pulling

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves. Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.”

Want Use Moving Rooms Audience Issues Series Complexes Debate Opponents Thrust Discussing Subtlety Convoluted

Author:Alan Lightman

“For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.”

World Way Looks Play Inspiration Age Three Found Player Twenties Originals Rose Champion Opponents Shock Aggressive Consistently Magician 1960s World Champions

Author:Garry Kasparov

“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“I would not want to be a politician... Let me tell you this: If I was campaigning, and I go against my opponent and he started attacking my character, and I leap over the table and choke him unconscious, would that help my campaign?”

Ifs Want Character Helping Politician Let Me Tables Campaigns Opponents Unconscious Leap Attacking Choke Campaigning

Author:Chuck Norris

“If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.”

Ifs Thinking Smart Opponents

Author:C. J. Cherryh

“All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.”

Children Long Wealth Victory Honor Rewards Immortality Opponents Ritual Gifted Cult Long Life After Death Good Health Cargo Health Wealth

Author:Octavia Butler

“Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.”

Ifs Use Action Accepting Moral Failing Masters Tests Prepared Crafts Deception Opponents Rulers Submit Defeated Be Prepared Scrutiny Treachery

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.”

Ifs Fall Loses Method Opponents

Author:David Gemmell

“A man can overcome his background, even as he can overcome a skilled opponent.”

Men Overcoming Backgrounds Opponents

Author:David Gemmell

“The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.”

Thinking Player Balls All Time Opponents Intimidated

Author:Alex Ferguson

“I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president against Gerald Ford and later against Ronald Reagan we never referred to each other except as 'my distinguished opponent'. And had we criticised personally our opponent it would have been political suicide, we would have been castigated and condemned for it.”

Has Beens Political Nations President Concerned Negative Aspect Suicide Ran Opponents Phenomenon Distinguished Campaigning Political Campaign Gerald Ford

Author:Jimmy Carter

“It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents.”

People Ifs Men Country Past Party Responsibility He Man Election Majority Unity Wounds Heal Opponents

Author:Nelson Mandela

“In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.”

May Ends Bigs Nations Changed Opponents Australia Big Picture

Author:Paul Keating

“This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America. Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country. Americans need to know this.”

Knows Men Needs Country Seems America Like You Terrorist Opponents Target Imperfect

Author:Sarah Palin

“Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.”

May Opponents Folly Globalisation

Author:Amartya Sen

“The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.”

Destruction Iraq Graves Opponents Conspiracy Exploitation Saddam Ruling Daggers Blackmail Stabbing Kuwait

Author:Saddam Hussein

“He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.”

“You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.”

Running Football Tough Balls Rings Opponents Bells Toughness

Author:Jerry Glanville

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?”

Ifs Knows Games Sports Opponents Hunting Fairness Equipment

Author:Bill Maher

“There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if you put my beliefs in one column and her positions in another column, I am almost convinced that a majority of the people in the Democratic Party would support my beliefs.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Names Belief Party Support Position Majority Democratic Convinced Recognition Opponents Democratic Party Columns

Author:Jonathan Tasini

“It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.”

Should Done Next Winning Sports Loses Ready Opponents Should I Get Over Professional Sports Sports In General

Author:Tony Romo

“Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.”

Kind Mean Different Action Political Used Results Power Military Position Source Weapons Capacity Police Including Chosen Destroyed Opponents Repression Opposing

Author:Gene Sharp

“The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese Expeditionary Forces are, as clearly set forth in statements issued by the Japanese Government, not only to protect the vested interests of Japan and the lives and property of the Japanese residents in the affected area, but also to scourge the Chinese Government and army who have een pursuing anti-foreign and anti-Japanese policies in collaboration with Communist influences.”

“Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.”

“Known as a negative player, Karpov sets up deep traps and creates moves that seem to allow his opponent possibilities - but that really don't. He takes no chances, and he gives his opponents nothing. He's a trench-warfare fighter who keeps the game moving just an inch at a time.”

Giving Seems Moving Games Chance Known Player Possibility Negative Fighter Opponents Inches Warfare Traps Trenches Karpov

Author:Bruce Pandolfini

“The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress. In the days of old-fashioned colonialism, the imperial power had at least to explain and justify at home the actions it was taking abroad. In the colony those who served the ruling imperial power could at least look to its protection against any violent move by their opponents. With neocolonialism neither is the case.”

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