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• I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

  Dick Schaap

  Sports, Curves, Balls

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• Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Hurt, Taken

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• It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.

  Glenn Beck

  Ideas, Silence, Facts

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.

  Danny Murtaugh

  Sports, Running, Team

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• Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Noble, Unjust

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

  William J. Clinton

  Strength, Opposing Views, Values

  Address to Democratic National Convention, Boston, Mass., 26 July 2004

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• Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.348, Classic Books Company

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• Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Team, Adversity

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

  Hayden Fry

  Team, Player, Fields

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• The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

  Wendell Berry

  Nuclear, Indiana, Hills

  "'Everything Worthy is Under Fire'". Interview with Thomas P. Healy, www.counterpunch.org. November 8, 2010.

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• To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

  Stephen Fry

  Mean, Opposites, Adults

  Stephen Fry's BAFTA annual television lecture, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Thinking, Views, Hands

  "Khrushchev Remembers; the Last Testament, Volume 2". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Strobe Talbott (Little, Brown), p. 415, 1974.

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• What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Men, Equal Pay, Hands

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• The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

  Christopher Lasch

  Definitions, Our Society, Sides

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• It is true that the American colonials have "free elections," in which they have the absolute right to vote for one of two opposing candidates, both of whom have been handpicked and financed by the Rockefeller syndicate. This touching evidence of "democracy" serves to convince most Americana that we are indeed a free people. We even have a cracked Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to prove it.

  Eustace Mullins

  Two, Philadelphia, People

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• Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Party, Law, Custody

  Simon Greenleaf (1847). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.7

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• The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.

  Roger Martin

  Ideas, Creative, Elements

  Roger L. Martin (2009). “The Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking”, p.27, Harvard Business Press

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• I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people.

  Che Guevara

  Blow, Two, People

  "Becoming Che: Guevara's Second and Final Trip through Latin America". Book by Carlos "Calica" Ferrer, translated by Sarah L. Smith, p. 170, 2006.

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• I have fought too hard and for too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry.

  John Lewis

  Sex, Couple, Cutting

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• Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Two, Wells, Humans

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• I've always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To me, encountering an opposing point of view is a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the issues at stake and develop my own point of view. But the first thing you've got to do is you've got to let people speak and you've got to listen. And that's what the first amendment is all about. That's what really distinguishes this country from others.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Block, Views

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• While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.

  Masaru Emoto

  Evil, Body, Facts

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• I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!

  Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

  Home, Giving, Lazy

  FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”

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• A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony

  Anthony Lawlor

  Confusion, Solitude, Unity

  Anthony Lawlor (1997). “A Home for the Soul: A Guide for Dwelling with Spirit and Imagination”, Clarkson Potter Publishers

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• The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

  Dick Morris

  Party, Political, Doe

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