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• My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

  Brian Tee

  Art, Uncles, Military

  "‘Mortal Kombat Legacy 2’ actor Brian Tee talks darker take on Liu Kang". Hero Complex interview, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

  Charles Kennedy

  Fighting, Thinking, Views

  "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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• There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.

  Hosea Ballou

  Religious, Doubt, Prejudice

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• I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

  Jimmy Connors

  Real, Kissing, Hug

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• It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

  Hannah Arendt

  Government, Dramatic, Conviction

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.206, Penguin

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• Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents.

  David Frum

  Political, Election, Political Opponents

  "ABC Highlights Frum's Charge Fox News and Selfish Limbaugh to Blame for Health Defeat". "Nightline" with Terry Moran, www.newsbusters.org. March 22, 2010.

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• When you sign on to be an activist in northwest Montana, people in the grocery store will avoid eye contact, particularly if they're hanging out with outspoken opponents to your views.

  Rick Bass

  Eye, Views, People

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• Any time an elected official in the world we're in today that appears so dysfunctional challenges a core constituency not of their opponent but of their own political base, I think we should pause and give them credit.

  Jeb Bush

  Thinking, Giving, Political

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• I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Doe, Routine

  Interview with Ruth Hilton, www.maxim.com. June 29, 2011.

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• Just a few months ago in the Republican primary Mitt Romney said to his opponents, who he was crushing at the time, stop whining. And I think that's a good message for the Romney campaign. Instead of whining about what the Obama campaign is saying, why don't you just put the facts out there and let people decide rather than trying to hide them.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Crush, Thinking, People

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.theshowbuzz.com. July 15, 2012.

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• Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religion, Progress, Steps

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• Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

  Thucydides

  Successful, Enemy, Coward

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• We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent.

  Russell Wilson

  Nfl, Score, Whatever It Takes

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• The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Fall, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent - or confronting any obstacle - that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, New York, Fighting

  Michael Bloomberg's State of the City Address, www.gothamgazette.com. January 8, 2004.

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• In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Running, Philosophy, Errors

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I keep on fighting as long as my opponent can make a mistake.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mistake, Fighting, Long

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• Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

  Dale Spender

  Education, War, Women

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• Figure out what your opponent wants you to do and try to do the opposite.

  Lou Krieger

  Opposites, Trying, Want

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• Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

  Jenna Morasca

  Hurt, Chemotherapy, Hurting You

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• In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.

  Chinua Achebe

  Vocabulary, Disease, Littles

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.100, Heinemann

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• The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

  Ronaldinho

  Play, Way, Tough

  "Ronaldinho: Rooney can improve any team". en.espn.co.uk. February 4, 2013.

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• I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

  George Galloway

  Gun, Government, Hussein

  "Galloway defends himself at US Senate" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2005.

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• The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

  H. L. Mencken

  Punishment, Understanding, Crime

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• Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.

  Matthew Continetti

  Mean, Squares, Insulting

  "Without Further Ado, Sarah Palin Returns". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2009.

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