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Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. -- Henry Wotton
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. -- Mark Twain
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself. -- Jack Nicklaus
Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries. -- Richard V. Allen
The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom. -- Robert Toombs
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist. -- Friedrich Engels
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. -- Haley Barbour
Beware the wrath of a patient adversary. -- John C. Calhoun
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. -- Frederick Soddy
But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary -- Tennessee Williams
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries. -- Francis Picabia
And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. -- William Shakespeare
Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. -- Samuel Johnson
Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism. -- Nikolai Bukharin
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries. -- Darrell Royal
Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better? -- Elizabeth Berkley
I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning. -- Rachael Ray
First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it. -- William James
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. -- Ambrose Bierce
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history of armed combat such affairs as the Mexican and Spanish-American Wars must be ranked, not as wars at all, but as organized assassinations. In the two World Wars, no American faced a bullet until his adversaries had been worn down by years of fighting others. -- H. L. Mencken
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -- Oscar Wilde
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends. -- Gloria Steinem
I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember. -- Gerald R. Ford
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. -- Alice Walker
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught. -- Annie Jacobsen
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. -- Ludwig von Mises
Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies. -- Evo Morales
You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting. -- Cyrus Vance
If the black vote does not come out in big numbers in the age of Ferguson and voter ID, it will empower our adversaries and enhance our marginalization. -- Al Sharpton
Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress. -- Bruce Babbitt
I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier. -- Steven Weber
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable. -- Michael Ignatieff
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man. -- Walter Martin
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. -- Jules Verne
Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant. -- Dick Cheney
One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries. -- Robert M. Gates
Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries. -- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We shall choose our adversaries, not the other way around. -- Paulo Coelho
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race. -- Benjamin Haydon
It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much. -- Ayn Rand
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries. -- Elizabeth Peters
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries. -- Elizabeth Peters
I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth. -- Otto von Bismarck
The further the soul advances, the greater are the adversaries against which it must contend. -- Evagrius Ponticus
If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated. -- Esther Peterson
Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries. -- James J. Martin
The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted. -- John Dryden
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies. -- Gelett Burgess
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. -- Ronald Reagan
I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime. -- Henning von Tresckow
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers. -- Peter Gay
Angela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties. -- Horst Seehofer
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. -- David Mitchell
A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way. -- Paulo Coelho
[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science. -- Steven Weinberg
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A politician knows that his friends are not always his allies, and that his adversaries are not always his enemies. -- Richard M. Nixon
Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries. -- Maya Angelou
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries? -- Joseph Addison
So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence. -- Plutarch
Ho Chi Minh sought to defeat both adversaries [French and American] primarily by using diplomatic and political means, combined with paramilitary activities. -- William J. Duiker
What a cruel irony of fate, to pair together, like Siamese twins united by the shoulders, scientific adversaries of such contrasting character! -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security. -- Thucydides
Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity. -- Chinua Achebe
[D-Day] means to me a beginning of the freedom of Europe. The freedom was the achievement of the military adversaries of the Germans. -- Manfred Rommel
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings. -- Samuel Rutherford
When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date. -- Isaac Newton
She [Hillary Clinton] used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. -- James Comey
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries. -- Ayn Rand
When we're trying to solve difficult national issues its sometimes necessary to talk to adversaries as well as friends. Historians have a word for this: diplomacy. -- Madeleine Albright
There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries. -- Jimmy Carter
Ho Chi Minh preferred to use the tactics of negotiation and compromise, primarily because of his recognition that the revolutionary movement was militarily weaker than its adversaries. -- William J. Duiker
Around the world, America's influence has declined while president Barack Obama has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us. -- Marco Rubio
It's much more important for U.S. to be able to defend against foreign attacks than it is to be able to launch successful attacks against foreign adversaries. -- Edward Snowden
The Persian Gulf crisis has forged a new world order in which the superpower adversaries of the Cold War now stand united to reverse Iraq's conquest of Kuwait... -- George H. W. Bush
Donald Trump enters office with historically low approval ratings, that's where the battle could get fought. If the country turns against him, his Republican adversaries could feel emboldened. -- Sam Tanenhaus
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology. -- Karl Mannheim
-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries! -- Richard Flanagan
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death. -- Adolf Hitler
Three quarters of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world would finish if people were to put on the shoes of their adversaries and understood their points of view -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure. -- Fred Thompson
There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons. -- Edward Gibbon
Most activists on the Left believe that they, not only their values, are morally superior to their adversaries. Therefore, coercing people to adhere to 'progressive' values is morally acceptable, even demanded. -- Dennis Prager
When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous. -- Chris Christie
I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries. -- Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force. -- Adolf Hitler
The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan. -- Barton Gellman
When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them. -- Barack Obama
I try to speak in a manner that allows people to tell me apart from my political adversaries. And I speak in a manner that the people can understand. For me, that isn't populism. -- Martin Schulz
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. -- Alvin Toffler
In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. -- Dennis C. Blair
The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries. -- Kevin McCarthy
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. -- William Shakespeare
Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans. -- Gerald R. Ford
It's like I'm married to the silencer, Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers. Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries, Put your snap back cap back, cap your capillaries. -- Pharoahe Monch

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