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• Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts to distract from meaningful policy discussions and to silence women's voices regarding their own health care.

  Sandra Fluke

  Meaningful, Voice, Silence

  "Sandra Fluke: Slurs won't silence women" by Sandra Fluke, www.cnn.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Running, Bobby Kennedy, Establishment

  "A Scrubbed Toe in the Race" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2010.

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• I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

  Hale Irwin

  Positive Attitude, Talent, Underestimate

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• When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

  Rick Perry

  Ducks, Issues, Trying

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• Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

  Dennis Prager

  Punishment, Acting, Facts

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• I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

  Marco Rubio

  Reform, Racist, Used

  "Here's the truth about my plan for immigration reform" by Marco Rubio, www.foxnews.com. April 23, 2013.

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• When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future.

  Paul Ryan

  Emotional, Play, Ideas

  "Paul Ryan Raises Money Off Of President Barack Obama’s Budget Speech" by Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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• I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

  Paul Ryan

  Records, Silent, Desperate

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with at least as much passion as the liberals.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Passion, Class, Progress

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.97, Verso

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• A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Horse, Heart, Stealing

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• The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Color, House

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.99, Ravenio Books

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• We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.

  Jean Genet

  Cheating, Adventure, Games

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• The Pavlik fight was the first time I heard the masses put the word knockout attached to my opponent. I'm real keen on what people say. Ninety percent of it might be garbage, but something in there might be the plan. That woke me up and I knew I wanted to destroy.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Real, Fighting, People

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• When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Fighting, Successful

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

  Lennox Lewis

  Skills, Boxing, Outwitting

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• On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

  Vinny Paz

  Funny, Boxing, Legs

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• To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.

  Albert Einstein

  Eye, World, Affair

  Albert Einstein (2000). “Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words”

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• I want to coach a team that opponents don't look forward to playing.

  Danny Ford

  Team, Looks, Want

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• Years ago we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and I see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period. That man has to be eliminated.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Men, Years, Trying

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• Fighting for me is a chess game. I'm not angry with my opponent. I just want to go in there and win.

  Demian Maia

  Fighting, Winning, Games

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• [W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

  Jared Diamond

  Crush, Religious, Patriotic

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.247, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

  John Locke

  Mean, Fighting, Want

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• It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Heart, Fighting, Games

  Bryce Courtenay (2011). “The Power of One”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

  Tamora Pierce

  Winning, People, Equipment

  Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.203, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Powerful, Faces, Reactions

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