Opponents Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

  Harry Shearer

  Guy, Cheesy, Politics

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• A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

  Nigel Short

  Confused, Sacrifice, Sound

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• Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Spheres, Force

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.151, Shambhala Publications

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• Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

  Dwight Morrow

  Forgiveness, Party, Rain

  Speech, 10 Oct. 1930

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• If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  "Managing technology products" by Joseph Mancuso, (p. 160), 1975.

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• Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

  Lance Morrow

  Inspirational, Silence, Goes On

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• Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.

  Martin McGuinness

  Country, Travel, Responsibility

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• There are many really good teams in our conference this season. Miami, Indiana and Detroit will be our fiercest opponents this year. But we just have to focus on our game and be patient with the realistic hope that we'll be on top after all is said and done.

  Jason Kidd

  Basketball, Team, Years

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• Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

  James Anthony Froude

  Science, Calm, Reason

  James Anthony Froude (2011). “Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881”, p.244, Cambridge University Press

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• When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

  John Heisman

  Weakness, Weak Spots, Hammers

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• When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Differences, Violence, Possibility

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• So a military force has no constant formation, water has no constant shape: the ability to gain victory by changing and adapting according to the opponent is called genius.

  Sun Tzu

  Military, Water, Victory

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.117, Shambhala Publications

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• Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the two of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.

  Les Parrott

  Two, Backstabbing, Sides

  Les Parrott (1996). “High-Maintenance Relationships: How to Handle Impossible People”, Tyndale House Pub

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• The innovator is not an opponent of the old; he is a proponent of the new.

  Lyle E. Schaller

  Creating, Innovators

  "The change agent".

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• When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Silence, Defense, Weak

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.227

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• Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very imperfect mortal, ever in need of God's grace, no one is beyond redemption.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Grace, Desire, Needs

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• When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.

  Novak Djokovic

  Fighting, Giving, Hug

  FaceBook post by Novak Djokovic from Feb 26, 2015

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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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• Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the
  first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their
  blade, the length of their arms, etc.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Encounters, Needs, Use

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

  Demosthenes

  Law, Enemy, Dictator

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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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