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  • Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require the military to move them elsewhere.
  • We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
  • A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
  • Although every step must be taken to protect against a chemical or biological attack in America, our nation would survive the use of those weapons as we did when anthrax was mailed to our Capitol and other targets.
  • The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
  • One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
  • Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
  • The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
  • When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
  • Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist - a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist - only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aeschylus And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • David Cronenberg All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Cate Campbell All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Robert Frost Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Arnold Palmer Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
    Arnold Palmer
    American golf player (1929 - 2016)
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  • Salman Rushdie An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • André Malraux Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Sir Cecil Beaton Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
    Sir Cecil Beaton
     
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  • Anthony de Mello Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Carl Levin Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Abdul Kalam Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Abraham Davenport I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.
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  • Damon Runyon I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
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