“ The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result. ”
- Sadaharu Oh- Copy
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“ Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. ”
- Dwight Whitney Morrow- Copy
- 568
“ To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy. ”
- Cus D’Amato- Copy
- 498
“ Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. ”
- Edmund Rouse- Copy
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“ I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights! ”
- Warren Harding- Copy
- 328
“ Five great enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace. ”
- Petrarch- Copy
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“ I didn't want my opponent to know there was anything wrong with me. ”
- Mary Pierce- Copy
- 977
“ I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! ”
- Warren G. Harding- Copy
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“ I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
- 3.6K
“ What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth. ”
- M. Douglas Ivester- Copy
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“ Our critics so far have been utterly incompetent. How do I know this? Because I know the soft underbelly of the Christian Reconstruction position. Every insider knows where the weak chinks are in his movement's armor. The best test of a critic's mastery of his opponent's system is his ability to go straight for his opponent's weakest spots. ”
- Gary North- Copy
- 911
“ He needed to make deals. a deal meant an opponent, an opponent meant confrontation and confrontation was the source of his strength. ”
- Peter Evans- Copy
- 3.1K
“ A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ”
- Max Planck- Copy
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“ A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ”
- Max Planck- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. ”
- George Galloway- Copy
- 870
“ At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 800
“ Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
- 2.7K
“ PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
- 2.5K
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