Opponents Quotes

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  But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

  Payne Stewart

  Friendship, Sports, Golf

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• I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Issues, Political

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• Forget your opponents; always play against par.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Focus

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• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

  Andre Agassi

  Hair, Feels

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• The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Leader, Different

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.139, eKitap Projesi

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• Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

  James Joyce

  Passion, Done, Reason

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• What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

  Robert Kennedy

  Overcoming Evil, Political, Atheism

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “The quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, War, Wipe

  "Treasury of the Free World". Book by Ben Raeburn. Introduction to the book, 1946.

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• Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.

  Paul Begala

  Destroying

  "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, edition.cnn.com. August 17, 2016.

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• 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

  Sports, Skills, Half

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• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Taken, Justice, Sides

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• There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.

  Laozi

  Underestimate, Danger, Greater

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• The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

  Konrad Adenauer

  Art, Knowing, Political

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• In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

  Alfred Adler

  Style, Suffering, Patient

  Alfred Adler (1964). “PROBLEMS OF NEUROSIS: A BOOK OF CASE HISTORIES”

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• If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

  Aeschylus

  Oil, Vinegar, Not Friends

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• I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.

  Alexis Arguello

  Fire, Two, Shots

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

  James M. Barrie

  Revenge, Conflict, Motive

  Rectorial Address at St Andrew's, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922

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• Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Party, Fall

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• Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

  Demosthenes

  Law, Enemy, Dictator

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• My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.

  Jacques Derrida

  Believe, Echoes, Names

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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• I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Believe, Thinking, People

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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

  Children, War, Desire

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• The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Truth, Doe

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• The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Appreciation, Loss, Swings

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