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The Exploitation of Religion Must Be Opposed. -- Yousef Saanei
Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue. -- Alexi Giannoulias
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. -- Hippocrates
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. -- Isaac Newton
The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry. -- Maria Mitchell
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites. -- Chuck D
I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now. -- Bryan Adams
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance. -- Max Weber
Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection. -- Drake
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete. -- Elon Musk
I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one. -- Jane Elliott
Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme. -- Vladimir Putin
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. -- Joshua Waitzkin
Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me. -- Amanda Crew
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. -- Peabo Bryson
I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value. -- Paul Walker
When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone. -- Simon Sinek
For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. -- Maurice Ravel
I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York. -- Carl Paladino
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. -- Richard M. Nixon
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society. -- Samantha Morton
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite. -- Arundhati Roy
There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. -- Nikola Tesla
People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes. -- Hoda Kotb
I'm religiously opposed to religion. -- Victor Hugo
Science and art are not opposed. -- Samuel Morse
I'm obsessively opposed to the typical. -- Lady Gaga
Barak Obama initially opposed [war in Libia]. -- Julian Assange
I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form. -- J. K. Rowling
Everything in excess Is opposed by nature. -- Hippocrates
That was something. As opposed to nothing. -- Kevin Ayers
Everything in excess is opposed to nature -- Hippocrates
The fact is, I'm opposed to coalitions. -- Justin Trudeau
I have never been opposed to earmarks. -- Judd Gregg
A change imposed is a change opposed. -- Spencer Johnson
Nature and man are opposed in Spain. -- Gertrude Stein
I'm not opposed to falling in love -- Taylor Swift
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes. -- Christopher Dodd
I'm not opposed to the use of force. -- Jill Stein
I believe in unity, as opposed to division. -- Tom Shadyac
I am opposed to the redefinition of marriage. -- Rick Warren
To every argument an equal argument is opposed, -- Sextus Empiricus
I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. -- Bill Paxton
There is nothing more opposed to equality than identity. -- Alice von Hildebrand
I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing. -- Newt Gingrich
Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
How well opposed to grand Theft Auto are you? -- Stephenie Meyer
Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort. -- Dallas Willard
I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. -- Noam Chomsky
I've always been opposed to slaughtering, eating, and wearing carcasses. -- Christian Serratos
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense. -- Richard Dawkins
People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about. -- Kate Langley Bosher
Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote. -- William Hague
I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion. -- William H. Macy
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning. -- Leon Kass
Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning. -- Dallas Willard
I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist. -- Tracey Emin
I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control. -- B. F. Skinner
I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered! -- Ricki Lake
Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent. -- David Steel
Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. -- Ann Oakley
I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media. -- Bill Keller
You must understand the feeling of originating as opposed to imitating. -- Sailor Jerry
My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all. -- Cindy McCain
Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government. -- George Allen
It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient. -- Judi Dench
I'm opposed to legalizing marijuana because it acts as a gateway drug. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. -- Jonathan Kozol
I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail. -- Chuck Schumer
I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars. -- Barack Obama
I think you gotta look at stuff half-full as opposed to half-empty. -- Pauly Shore
I'm totally opposed to vouchers. I will fight them tooth and nail. -- Chuck Schumer
Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed. -- Lester Bangs
My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. -- Peter Shaffer
If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us. -- Simon Bolivar
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists. -- Carter G. Woodson
Unfortunately, Congress is protecting the profits of those opposed to protecting the planet. -- Ray Metcalfe
I always try to just be honest ... As opposed to artifice or manipulation. -- Demetri Martin
Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state. -- Alastair Mackenzie
I'm completely opposed to the idea of becoming accustomed to foreign military campaigns. -- Guido Westerwelle
If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies. -- Louise Slaughter
Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am. -- Steve Carell
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed. -- Jackie Chan
I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit. -- Rand Paul
I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect. -- Clint Eastwood
This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense. -- Mark Rothko
I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things. -- Judy Greer
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others -- Elbert Hubbard
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. -- Dennis Potter
Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes. -- B. F. Skinner
The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers. -- John Sweeney
Does he have a double standard for black critics as opposed to white critics? -- Cornel West
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. -- Richard Attenborough
That's more along what the story is, as opposed to me being onstage singing. -- Toby Keith
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Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam. -- Howard Rheingold
I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw. -- Neve Campbell
I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.' -- John Hodgman
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. -- Christopher Hitchens
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another. -- Christine Baranski
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me. -- Daniel Clowes
There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not. -- John Steinbeck
The disastrous invasion of Iraq, something that I strongly opposed, has unraveled the region. -- Bernie Sanders
We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior. -- Shay Mitchell
A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama. -- Ed Asner
Create what you want as opposed to being stuck in what you didn't have. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty -- Francois Guizot
There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children. -- Maurice Sendak

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