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The greatest test of courage is to live in accordance with one's beliefs, even when facing opposition.
Author:
Sophia Bennett
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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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!
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
Author:
Margaret Wheatley
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I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
Author:
Andrew Webber
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My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.
Author:
Shane Warne
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My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
Author:
Robert Vaughn
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My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
Author:
James Thurber
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But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
Author:
James Thurber
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The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
Author:
Gustav Stresemann
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President Bush remained undeterred by the massive display of American opposition, even though much of it came from the hundreds of thousands of voters who supported him by voting for Nader.
Author:
Jon Stewart
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A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
Author:
Howard Staunton
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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
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Joseph Stalin
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
Author:
Bob Schaffer
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The opposition may have the right to doubt every thing, but for myself, I call on opposition to practice its role within limits of objectively, responsibility and country interests.
Author:
Ali Saleh
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It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
Author:
Joseph Rutherford
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides.
Author:
Ricky Ponting
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There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
Author:
Peter Pace
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In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.
Author:
Conan O'Brien
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I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory.
Author:
George Norris
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Author:
Edward Murrow
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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Author:
Lewis Mumford
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I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
Author:
Ricardo Montalban
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From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.
Author:
Angela Merkel
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He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Author:
Ian Mcewan
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We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.
Author:
Chris Matthews
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Author:
Karl Marx
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Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.
Author:
Mel Martinez
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Author:
Orison Marden
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At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.
Author:
Margaret Mahy
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There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
Author:
Maya Lin
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
Author:
Jack Levine
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As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Author:
Edward Levi
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We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
Author:
Nigel Lawson
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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.
Author:
Shia LaBeouf
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
Author:
William Kirby
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To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
Author:
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
Author:
Tahar Jelloun
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The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.
Author:
Antony Jay
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For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.
Author:
Roman Jakobson
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Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.
Author:
Glenda Jackson
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I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.
Author:
Johnny Isakson
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So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.
Author:
Jeremy Irons
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We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
Author:
Patricia Ireland
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Author:
Vernon Howard
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But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.
Author:
Charles Hodge
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These men were religious when the spirit of religion was buried in forms and ceremonies, and when the priesthood had armed itself with the civil powers to put down all opposition, and suppress all freedom, intellectual, civil, and religious.
Author:
Ethan Hitchcock
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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.
Author:
Patricia Hewitt
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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.
Author:
Patricia Hewitt
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Author:
Heraclitus
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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
Author:
Dorothy Height
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Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Author:
Frank Harris
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First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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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.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless.
Author:
David Gower
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I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
Author:
Todd Gitlin
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Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
Author:
Sunil Gavaskar
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
Author:
John Galsworthy
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
Author:
Gerald Ford
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Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
Author:
Robert Follette
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Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.
Author:
Robert Follette
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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!
Author:
Joschka Fischer
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A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.
Author:
Howard Fineman
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The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Author:
Brian Ferneyhough
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The first organised opposition by women to women's suffrage in England dates from 1889, when a number of ladies led by Mrs Ward appealed against the proposed extension of the Parliamentary suffrage to women.
Author:
Millicent Fawcett
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One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money.
Author:
Michael Enzi
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
Author:
George Eliot
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.
Author:
Paul Dirac
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Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.
Author:
Peter DeFazio
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
Author:
Adrian Cronauer
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
Author:
Bainbridge Colby
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I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consistent with God's existence as it is in opposition to God's existence.
Author:
John Clayton
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I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
Author:
Kenneth Clarke
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I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.
Author:
Kenneth Clarke
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It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
Author:
Mary Cheney
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Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
Author:
Maria Chapman
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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
Author:
Georg Cantor
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I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
Author:
Anne Campbell
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In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
Author:
John Burns
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Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.
Author:
Scott Brown
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Everything is produced by the workers, and the minute they try to get something by their unions they meet all the opposition that can be mustered by those who now get what they produce.
Author:
Harry Bridges
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Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
Author:
Breyten Breytenbach
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But let's be clear. We're talking about a country where there's no opposition. As leader he can ignore Parliament and - sorry that's Tony Blair isn't it? Um, so he doesn't even have to ask the country before he goes to war - sorry that's still Tony Blair.
Author:
Rory Bremner
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Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.
Author:
James Bovard
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Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
Author:
James Bovard
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People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
Author:
David Bohm
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I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
Author:
Eric Bogosian
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Everybody on this floor wants to send the same loud and clear message: that Congress is united in its opposition to terror and we are all deeply concerned about the future and security of our close friend and ally, Israel.
Author:
Earl Blumenauer
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Opposition is true friendship.
Author:
William Blake
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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.
Author:
Steve Blake
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Author:
Jane Austen
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When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.
Author:
Elizabeth Anderson
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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Author:
Woody Allen
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
Author:
John Acton
