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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.

  Jules Verne

  Two, America, Enemy

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.79, Jules Verne

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• All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others.

  H. L. Mencken

  Peace, War, Fighting

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• We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Real, Party, Practice

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• The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

  Alvin Toffler

  Errors, Recognition, Metaphor

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• [C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

  Steven Weinberg

  Religious, Atheism, World

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• I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

  Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

  School, Adventure, College

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Civilization, Evil

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• I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us--but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat--soinstead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Hurt, Thinking, Temptation

  Laurence Sterne (1823). ““The” Novels Of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, And Clara Reeve: 5”, p.251

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• Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If our mother made us feel secure and proud in our masculinity, then we want to find that again in our wife. If we are really comfortable with our mother, we can even marry a woman who is a friend rather than an adversary, and form a true partnership.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Falling In Love, Wife

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• It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Believe, Generations

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• When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

  Chris Christie

  President, Allies, United States

  "Chris Christie hits Rand Paul, defends record as NJ governor". "The Five" with Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 22, 2015.

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• If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash.

  Edward Snowden

  Cutting, Impact, Ties

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most important thing to the United States is not being able to attack our adversaries, the most important thing is to be able to defend ourselves. And we can't do that as long as we're subverting our own security standards for the sake of surveillance.

  Edward Snowden

  Long, Important, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries.

  Edward Snowden

  Successful, Important, Able

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.

  Mason Cooley

  Fear, Shots

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• Self-criticism expands the opportunities for discourse and eliminates the need for an adversary.

  Mason Cooley

  Opportunity, Self, Criticism

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• Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Order, Important

  Hillary Clinton's speech on foreign policy and domestic issues at the Democratic presidential debate at Drake University in Iowa hosted by the CBS News, www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Friends, Race

  Benjamin Robert Haydon (1876). “Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-talk”, p.445

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• Inanimate objects are sometimes parties to litigation. A ship has a legal personality, a fiction found useful for maritime purposes. The corporation sole - a creature of ecclesiastical law - is an acceptable adversary, and large fortunes ride on its cases... So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life.

  William O. Douglas

  Party, Technology, Air

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

  Jack Nicholson

  Taken, Intelligent, Hands

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• THIS IS THE WAY OF PEACE: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love... My simple peace message is adequate - really just the message that the way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things. One in harmony with God's law of love has more strength than an army, for one need not subdue an adversary; an adversary can be transformed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Army, Simple, Love Is

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.97, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

  Akhenaton

  Pain, Revenge, Men

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• The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

  Henry Miller

  Oysters, Violence, Resorts

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.

  Cory Booker

  Causes, Calling, Opponents

  "A Great American Servant" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2009.

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• I am the nice adversary, the guy that's going to ask the tough questions and is not going to be happy with the quick answer.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Nice, Tough Questions, Guy

  Source: deadline.com

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