“ John Kerry's shifting positions, his contradictions, his pessimism and his hopeless rhetoric send the wrong message to our troops, to our allies, to our enemies and to the world. ”
- Steve Schmidt- Copy
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“ No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. ”
- Eleanor Roosevelt- Copy
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“ All the kinds of things... contrary to what the look is,... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction. ”
- Ralph Lauren- Copy
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“ I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind — and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ Given a sufficient number of people and an adequate amount of time you can create insurmountable opposition to the most inconsequential idea. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition. ”
- John Wagstaff- Copy
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“ The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man without trials. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ”
- Sun tzu- Copy
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“ Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind. ”
- Hamilton Wright Mabie- Copy
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“ I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
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“ Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ”
- Sun tzu- Copy
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“ One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ Cultivate tact for it is the mark of culture... the lubricant of human relations, softening contacts and minimizing friction. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ Thought as such... is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it. ”
- Theodor W. Adorno- Copy
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“ A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ Wealth in activity — capital with all its friction — is far safer than invested wealth lying dead. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ These contradictions are gross and palpable and demonstrate that the New Testament is not inspired, and that many of its statements must be false. ”
- Robert Ingersoll- Copy
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