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I was more in opposition within my own party, and for a long while, I was part of the opposition. I had - Scoop Jackson was my candidate in '76. I made no bones about that.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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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.
- Harry Bridges
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Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.
- Robert M. La 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.
- Robert M. La Follette
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During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn't question their motives.
- Wil S. Hylton
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I played international football for England, and in many games, we were technically inferior to the opposition.
- Gareth Southgate
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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.
- Garrett Hardin
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It is important to signal that opposition to the use of any weapon of mass destruction is both deep and broad.
- Richard N. Haass
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Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.
- Jacob Rothschild
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Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.
- Brian Sandoval
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Of course, Putin may well have reasons for wanting Trump to be president - not least Trump's apparent skepticism toward NATO and his lack of opposition to Russia's military interventions in Ukraine and Syria.
- Masha Gessen
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That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposition.
- Bob Cousy
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
- Barry Eisler
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
- William C. Kirby
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I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.
- Gerry Harvey
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Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.
- Douglas Tompkins
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For Donald Trump, any opposition, either personal, ideological, or political is treason. Anyone who stands in his path betrays the Great Leader. Anyone who fails to take the knee is a traitor.
- Rick Wilson
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
- Vernon Howard
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Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.
- Victoria Woodhull
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The media are so key in a national emergency, especially when opposition parties in the U.K. are - let us say - largely in disarray, even leaderless.
- Claire Fox
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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.
- Millicent Fawcett
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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.
- Brian Ferneyhough
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I have no problem with free speech, but free speech and then silencing your opposition - boy, I have a problem with that.
- Tomi Lahren
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I prefer the Greens to remain an opposition party that's able to hold the government to account.
- Elizabeth May
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To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.
- Evan Osnos
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Don't take it personally if you're met with opposition. Work hard anyway.
- Yvonne Orji
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For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.
- Joe Scarborough
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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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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.
- Charles Hodge
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We welcome the opposition of the world, because we are determined to see the battle through. Africa's battle-cry is not yet heard.
- Marcus Garvey
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Costa Rica and Germany have simply been pawns in the Japanese quest to silence Sea Shepherd in an attempt to stop our annual opposition of their illegal whaling activities.
- Paul Watson
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I used to come out and say I was targeting certain players in the opposition team, particularly players I had had success against in the past: Gary Kirsten, Brian Lara and Michael Atherton, for example. It is a mental part of the game.
- Glenn McGrath
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When I was in my heyday, of course I had those who hated me. They were supposed to hate the opposition. But it's good, though. It feels good.
- Rasheed Wallace
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The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.
- John Gresham Machen
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There is definitely a lot of banks that are interested in private blockchains. In some cases, they are happy with public blockchains as well. The opposition to just doing things on a public blockchain is definitely smaller than some of the strongest detractors think.
- Vitalik Buterin
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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.
- Bainbridge Colby
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We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it.
- Nigel Lawson
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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.
- Johnny Isakson
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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.
- Ricardo Montalban
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You've got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.
- Ravi Shastri
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An unelected opposition in Parliament cannot change the PAP. GE 2011 and the Government's response to shift to the left proved that.
- Pritam Singh
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There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the rest of them were doing deals and calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist.
- Ken Loach
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If Donald Trump takes the nation backwards, we can lead as a state and move forward. It is up to us to stand in opposition to anything that would take Colorado backwards.
- Cary Kennedy
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To each his own, but my process of preparation is based on conditions, not opposition.
- Rohit Sharma
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I am slightly better at sleeping now during Test matches. I have a diary and I write things down, which helps. I write about decisions, a lot about opposition and stuff I want to say to the team so I am clear on the message I want to give.
- Joe Root
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Sometime you need to give credit to the opposition.
- Gautam Gambhir
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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.
- Michael Enzi
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Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.
- Maajid Nawaz
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I never chased around with the opposition or got too well acquainted with them, because when the time in the ballgame came up where I had to pitch inside, I didn't want to hesitate.
- Vernon Law
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I've never been an MP in government unfortunately and only know what it's like to be in opposition.
- Luciana Berger
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John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be elected to the House, where he spent nine terms in Whiggish opposition to the Democrats, supporting a national bank and a protective tariff and internal improvements.
- Thomas Mallon
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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.
- Patricia Ireland
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Whenever there is something revolutionary and new, there is opposition. There are difficulties in all parties, perhaps in my party, too.
- Sonia Gandhi
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In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political opposition and so forth. Brand-new as of April 1933.
- Erik Larson
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Maybe the key aspect of imposing fear to the opposition is to make them understand that we have no fear.
- Diego Simeone
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I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.
- William G. Boykin
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You can only beat the opposition that's in front of you, you can only win the trophies that you go for.
- Chris Kamara
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At times on overseas tours, we assess if there are more left-handers or right-handers in the opposition and accordingly, the team's composition is set.
- Ravindra Jadeja
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New York state and federal election laws allow us to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to candidates so long as we do not coordinate those expenditures.
- Tom Golisano
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We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries.
- Justin Trudeau
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Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.
- Joyce Meyer
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Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
- Jane Austen
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
- George Eliot
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- Francis Bacon
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.
- Georges Pompidou
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I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
- George McGovern
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It took 16 years after our independence for the opposition to win even one elected seat. And 23 years after 1988, when the GRC system was introduced, for the opposition to win one GRC.
- Pritam Singh
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Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.
- Al Franken
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
- Adrian Cronauer
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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.
- Edward R. Murrow
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If you look at the people in the Occupy and tax-evading movements, they come from all walks of life and have embraced that attitude of opposition from the 1970s.
- Keith Allen
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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.
- Sunil Gavaskar
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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- Woody Allen
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Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.
- Norman Schwarzkopf
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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
- Heraclitus
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
- Christopher Hitchens
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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
- Sigmund Freud
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If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
- Joseph Stalin
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The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.
- Isaac Newton
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
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