Opposition Quotes
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen R. Covey
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen R. Covey
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John Kerry was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O’Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O’Neill meet ...
Charles W. Colson
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx
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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by kil...
Robert A. Heinlein
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express t...
Albert Einstein
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To you I`m an atheist; to God, I`m the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen
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[interview in Minnesapolis Star-Tribune] You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it`s like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out. No...
Jesse Ventura
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To you, I`m an atheist; to God, I`m the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen
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Asked if he felt besieged by the opposition to The Passion of the Christ (2004): Beseiged? No, not really. They`re pretty pathetic actually. I sort of look at them now and feel sorry for them. They`ve given their best shot, they kind of came out with this...
Mel Gibson
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Opposition to The Passion of the Christ (2004) kind of put me back on my heels a little bit ... I expected some level of turbulence because when one delves into religion and politics - people`s deeply held beliefs -- you`re going to stir things up ... But...
Mel Gibson
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I learned early that you`d better know what you`re talking about. You`d better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you`re going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint ...
Robert Redford
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
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Asked whether his opposition to abortion and support for capital punishment makes him feel isolated in Hollywood: "Some kind of a dinosaur? No, you know you have to have these opinions about these things. I`m pretty firm on stuff like that. I don`t feel l...
Mel Gibson
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You need to get out there racing against the opposition. You put a marker down and see where you are at.
Anthony Marotta
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You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.
David Gower
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When you look at golf films before us they`re all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can`t beat him.
Shia LaBeouf
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When you look at golf films before us they`re all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can`t beat him.
Shia LaBeouf
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Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP`s experience here.
Amr Moussa
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We`ve seen some aggressive opposition in the New York area, ... It`s a sign that terrorism is alive and well in this country.
Anthony Cabot
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We`ll support the government on issues if it`s essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.
Stephen Harper
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We were in opposition to the decision to go to war. But after the war happened, it was clear that you could not sit and look-there would be a breeding ground for terrorism or a new collapsed or failed state named Iraq!
Joschka Fischer
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We supported the contras. We`re not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.
Chris Matthews
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We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.
Amr Moussa
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We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our opposition to the process called globalisation could be considered by some to place us on the far-left of conventional politics.
Andreas Renschler
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We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can`t come up with real lasting solutions!
Alyaksandr Milinkevich
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We did not have an annual meeting to elect officers for several years because there was no reason for one. There was no neighborhood opposition to what we have been doing.
Todd Thompson
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We could not be more pleased with the response. We will have people coming from at least 23 different states on Saturday, and we`re set to break our all-time record with more than 1,300 attendees. All despite the controversy stirred up by opposition group...
Aubree Johnson
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