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Opposing taxes is a key conservative value. -- Newt Gingrich
Opposing [Donald]Trump aligns you with Hamas. -- Keith Ellison
Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position. -- Mike Huckabee
Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea. -- William Weld
Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music. -- Pierre Schaeffer
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. -- William J. Clinton
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. -- Elliott Carter
I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. -- Rumi
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction. -- Ryan Reynolds
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron. -- Francis Collins
It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. -- Cynthia McKinney
I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier. -- Dick Schaap
War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting. -- Sheri Fink
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. -- Robert Collier
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. -- Christopher Lasch
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. -- Georg Simmel
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it. -- Stephen Hawking
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. -- Douglas Haig
Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? -- Nikita Khrushchev
The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean. -- Paul Watson
If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of. -- Jim Lee
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. -- Stephen Fry
Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise. -- Simon Greenleaf
It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it. -- Hayden Fry
Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me. -- Brett Favre
I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed. -- Roger Clemens
The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It demands mindlessness and unquestioned loyalty, resulting in boring people who have little ability to think for themselves or have an opposing viewpoint from those who have the most social power. -- Rosalind Wiseman
Success depends on our using, and not opposing... -- Thomas Troward
FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. -- Ambrose Bierce
Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills. -- Thomas John Barnardo
The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot. -- James N. Frey
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces. -- William H. Seward
I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints. -- Joe Bradley
Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good. -- Fay Weldon
The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own. -- Dick Morris
Whenever God is blessing, we can expect the devil to be opposing. -- Greg Laurie
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When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless. -- Byron Katie
I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness. -- Seimone Augustus
Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views. -- Sharon Begley
Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you. -- Robert Breault
How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? -- Teresa of Avila
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right. -- William E. Gladstone
For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills. -- Mari Evans
I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry. -- Barack Obama
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
When two opposing sides meet in battle, the one without an enemy will be victorious. -- Laozi
Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting. -- Michael Spiller
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist. -- Stephan Kinsella
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker. -- Criss Jami
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas. -- Charlie Munger
Every great dream, meet an opposing views.The certainty within our spirit made the dream reality. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time. -- David Salle
Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life. -- Eckhart Tolle
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq. -- Dick Morris
I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders. -- Collin Peterson
With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view. -- Eunice Parisi-Carew
IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS. -- Emma Watson
The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy. -- Robert Gilpin
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. -- Matthew Lesko
Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other. -- Nina Conti
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however, -- Deborah Harkness
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. -- Wendell Berry
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification. -- Desmond Tutu
In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality. -- Eugen Herrigel
The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint. -- David J. Lieberman
Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better. -- Ron Reagan
Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare. -- Jeb Bush
The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed. -- Meir Soloveichik
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful. -- Dalai Lama
The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans. -- P. W. Botha
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. -- Errico Malatesta
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses. -- Anita Roddick
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it. -- Tony Blair
Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church. -- John Fugelsang
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick. -- Gore Vidal
Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient. -- Sun Tzu
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. -- Havelock Ellis
We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17. -- Barack Obama
I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about. -- Randall Robinson
What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith. -- Lindsey Graham
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium -- Henri Frederic Amiel
When you feel destructive, negative emotions like hate and anger arise within you towards the person opposing you; cultivate the opposite state of mind. -- Sharon Gannon
If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views. -- Robert Casey
two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere. -- Emme
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. -- Jay Leno
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Plug into the anti-obvious power of the rebel. Or get those opposing minds to plug into your purpose, to solve your problem, to reimagine your process. -- Max McKeown
Two opposing gospels are fighting one another for the soul of our nation and, increasingly, the world: the gospel of consumption and the gospel of peace. -- Leonard Sweet
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace -- Ezra Pound
What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up. -- Ava Zavora
You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary. -- Wallace D. Wattles
I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values. -- Noah Hawley
We Masons are among the fortunate ones who are taught to meet together with others opposing convictions or competitive ideas and yet respect each other as Brothers. -- Albert Pike
Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook. -- Charlie Trotter
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. -- Connie Mack
Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable. -- Faith Prince
Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance. -- John I. Jenkins
For every well-attested, heavily researched, and eminently authoritative argument made about the historical Jesus, there is an equally well-attested, equally researched, and equally authoritative argument opposing it. -- Reza Aslan
The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it. -- Martin Luther
Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. -- Bob Schaffer
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. -- Trofim Lysenko
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past. -- Aaron Swartz
I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment. -- Sonia Johnson
Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference. -- Frederick Salomon Perls
Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations. -- Kirby Page
At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological. -- Hermann Hesse
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah. -- George Steiner
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. -- Michael Pollan
I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players. -- Michael Michele

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