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• Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

  Charles de Gaulle

  Way, Hardest

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• I tried to get into the mind of my opponent and psyche him out.

  Muhammad Ali

  Mind

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Ali from May 27, 2014

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• We wrestle with our own opponents on a daily basis. These challengers can come in numerous forms whether it be a physical challenge, emotional, or even relational issues that can overtake us. No matter what opponent we are wrestling against we can be UNSTOPPABLE.

  Anthony Robles

  Wrestling, Emotional, Issues

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• In chess, there is only one mistake: over-estimation of your opponent. All else is either bad luck or weakness.

  Savielly Tartakower

  Mistake, Luck, Weakness

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• I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

  Luis Suarez

  Football, Strong, Pain

  "Luis Suárez recognises no limits, either good or bad" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2014.

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• As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Real, Years, Long

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• Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Heart, Simple

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• Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Struggle, Leader

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• The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Children, Athlete, Play

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• The technologists claim that if everything works [in a nuclear fission reactor] according to their blueprints, fission energy will be a safe and very attractive solution to the energy needs of the world. ... The real issue is whether their blueprints will work in the real world and not only in a "technological paradise."... Opponents of fission energy point out a number of differences between the real world and the "technological paradise." ... No acts of God can be permitted.

  Hannes Alfven

  Real, Science, Differences

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• But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract ideas or more sure that disagreement with him is proof of ignorance, bad faith or dogmatism. As a candidate, he insisted his real opponent was 'cynicism,' and in his address last week, he returned to this trite formulation, insisting again he was bravely battling the cynics.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Real, Ignorance, Ideas

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• Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.

  Bent Larsen

  Small Numbers, Games, Play

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• Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

  Alexey Suetin

  War, Chess, Film

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• One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.

  Garry Kasparov

  Moving, Doe, Chess

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• Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Irs, Scandal

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• The challenge for me is his size because, for the first time in my career, I'll be meeting an opponent who is taller than me and has a longer reach.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Careers, Challenges

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• If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Motivation, Fighting, Interesting

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• After you work out, you have your dog with you. There's no better companion. You've got to have a friend. I didn't like opponents who had dogs with them. Because you know they had a little edge. They have a friend

  George Foreman

  Dog, Work Out, Littles

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• If an opponent won't watch you bet, then you probably shouldn't.

  Mike Caro

  Watches, Ifs

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• The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come--he's all yours. Just a tip!

  Keith Richards

  Home, Fighting, Knives

  Keith Richards (2010). “Life”, p.241, Hachette UK

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• It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Real, Mistake

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.913, RosettaBooks

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• The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As in our day, debate and disagreement centred largely not on the story but on the significance of Jesus. Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.

  Graham Stanton

  Christian, Jesus, Miracle

  Graham Stanton (2002). “The Gospels and Jesus”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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• Work is already underway today on creating unique high-precision weapons systems and manoeuvrable combat units that will have an unpredictable flight trajectory for the potential opponent. Along with the means for overcoming anti-missile defences that we already have, these new types of arms will enable us to maintain what is definitely one of the most important guarantees of lasting peace, namely, the strategic balance of forces.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Unique, Creating

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• If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate.

  Alexander Kotov

  Time, Moving, Writing

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• We have to deal with a lot of things. One of them is we have to deal with fake conservatives that are bought-and-paid for by the Karl Rove establishment. Unfortunately, some in my area have recruited a primary opponent against me.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Fake, Insightful

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