Famous Quotes: Against

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
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Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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Humor is just another defense against the universe.
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I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
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The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
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This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
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I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.
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A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
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I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance.
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