Adversaries Quotes
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
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Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries.
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Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.
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My adversaries crumble when we rumble; it's a catastrophe.
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Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
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May not undermine the president as he leads us into war, and they may not give comfort to our adversaries, but they come mighty close.
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.
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Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?
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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
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Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
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We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.
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I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
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It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.
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Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one penned by Jefferson, they omit the words "all men are created equal." Why? They have adopted a temporary national constitution, in the preamble of which, unlike our good old one, signed by Washington, they omit "We, the People," and substitute "We, the deputies of the sovereign and independent States." Why? Why this deliberate pressing out of view, the rights of men, and the authority of the people?
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The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend.
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There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
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For decades I've been told by my adversaries in the Religious Right that they only seek a “place at the table” for their Christian worldview—well, their version of Christianity, that is. But evidence has mounted recently that what they really want is something else entirely: to own the table, determine what goes on it, and force-feed everyone the same gruel they consume.
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When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.
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National security is not just things that go boom. It is not just terrorists and foreign adversaries.
