Quotes with against

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  • Bart Stupak Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Alighieri Dante Will cannot be quenched against its will.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Florence Nightingale Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
    Florence Nightingale
    English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Walton Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Ann Beattie Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Bonnie Somerville Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing... we're not all after each other.
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  • Bryan Callen Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Golda Meir Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm against the wind.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Beau Willimon You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • W.E. Gladstone You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
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  • Learned Hand You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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  • Lorrie Moore You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Bobby Knight You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
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  • J. M. Barrie You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
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  • George S. Patton You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Carlos Gershenson You shouldn't compete against others. You should compete against yourself.
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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