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A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
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A merger is hard to pull off under any circumstances. It's harder when everybody is against you.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
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A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
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After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Against ill chances men are ever merry, but heaviness foreruns the good event.
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Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control.
A Distant Mirror -
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell -
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
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