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Forget your opponents; always play against par. -- Sam Snead
Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for. -- Joshua A. Tucker
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Opponents are working very hard to defeat us. Let's not do it for them by defeating ourselves from within. -- John Wooden
Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly. -- Amartya Sen
Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that. -- Sander Levin
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
I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent. -- Sue Wicks
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. -- Rand Paul
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -- Max Planck
I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit. -- Sue Wicks
Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. -- Karen DeCrow
Opponents of U.S. sanctions have made 'unilateral sanctions' their special target. They argue that sanctions observed by many nations would be much more effective. True enough. Far better for trade with an outlaw regime to be restricted by many nations than by just one. -- Elliott Abrams
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
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue. -- Boyle Roche
I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair. -- Andre Agassi
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance. -- Michelle Wie
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. -- Sidney Hook
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. -- Baltasar Gracian
The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents. -- Imran Khan
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. -- Adolf Hitler
If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you. -- Donna Brazile
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation. -- Craig L. Thomas
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. -- Sun Tzu
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. -- Vince Lombardi
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. -- Ronald Reagan
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them. -- Jose Mourinho
But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point. -- Payne Stewart
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
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
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity. -- Benjamin Franklin
I had to get up run in the morning for 2 hours, go to the gym and also get good opponents as sparring partners because I'm a big believer in that how you train is how you will fight at least when it came to me that's how it worked. -- Alexis Arguello
When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community." -- Adolf Hitler
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. -- Bobby Knight
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself. -- Ernest Hemingway
Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. -- Thomas Malthus
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. -- Herbert Hoover
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it. -- Theodor Herzl
If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds. -- Tariq Ramadan
Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. -- Donald Rumsfeld
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. -- Bob Riley
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
Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. -- Manfred von Richthofen
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. -- Richard M. Nixon
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
Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents. -- Richard Engel
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service. -- Eddie Bernice Johnson
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
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time. -- Ben Shapiro
The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves. -- Ben Carson
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime. -- John Carter
It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of the program out of general circulation, but can you prevent the code from being reverse-engineered by serious opponents? Probably not. The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets. -- Whitfield Diffie
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. -- George Will
Truth never triumphs-its opponents just die out, -- Max Planck
For multiple opponents, I have multiple brothers. -- Renzo Gracie
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows. -- Karl Kraus
I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves. -- Helio Gracie
Make the opponents' goal more expensive than it's worth. -- Morton Blackwell
The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable. -- Paul Weyrich
Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents. -- Lawrence Taylor
You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents. -- Bear Bryant
The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates. -- Ronald H. Nash
My opponents are the people who gave up our borders. -- Nigel Farage
You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them. -- Kim Clijsters
I win on my merits; my opponents win by cheating. -- Mason Cooley
Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Nobody ever won an election by spitting at his political opponents. -- David Frum
A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself -- Jan Smuts
Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation. -- Rudolf Virchow
Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. -- Lionel Messi
Politics is like boxing "? you try to knock out your opponents. -- Idi Amin
The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents. -- Barney Frank
Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents -- Charles de Gaulle
Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents. -- Ernst Otto Fischer
The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents. -- Leonard Peikoff
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents. -- Jonah Goldberg
I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards. -- Derek Landy
The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution. -- Michael Parenti
Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. -- Dennis Hastert
All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season -- Rob Hawthorne
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Train hard while others don't, so you can win while your opponents wont. -- Andre Bramble
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I want to coach a team that opponents don't look forward to playing. -- Danny Ford
You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents. -- Wynton Marsalis
If we're going to conquer our opponents, we must first conquer our own fears. -- Ann Shin
It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents. -- Glenn Reynolds
Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration -- Bobby Fischer
Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents. -- Suzy Kassem
I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate. -- Russ Feingold
Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. -- Bobby Fischer
When opponents keep harping on one point, it is a sure sign of success! -- Narendra Modi
The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. -- Orhan Pamuk
never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you -- Walter Wink
We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human. -- Robert Zuppke
Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me. -- Bobby Fischer
You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. -- Jostein Gaarder
Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting. -- Sun Tzu
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse. -- Carl Hiaasen
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up. -- Karl Kraus
We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents' psyche and their plan of attack, -- Shaka
Please understand what the IRS scandal is about: Using the government to shut down opponents -- Dennis Prager
Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents. -- Rush Limbaugh
You can't blame your opponents for applying a strategy that beats your brains out with regularity. -- William J. Clinton
Being in permanent campaign mode allows you to never stop the process of destroying your opponents. -- Rush Limbaugh
I always believe when your political opponents are committing suicide, there's no reason to murder them. -- John Boehner
Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea. -- Didier Drogba
You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck. -- Bernie Ecclestone
I can take care of myself! But the "external barriers", my opponents, do indeed concern me. -- Mikhail Tal
I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power. -- Paul Ryan
We weren't more physical than Russia, we didn't play faster than Brazil, but we 'out-teamed' our opponents. -- Hugh McCutcheon
It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever. -- James Koven
The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents. -- Leonard Ravenhill

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