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opposition
«It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.»
Author: A. A. Hodge
(Biographer)
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Men,
Truth,
Wisdom
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intrepid, opposition, score, stand up
«Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.»
Author: Charles Simmons
| Keywords:
costs, denial, first step, glorious, homage, liable, maintain, opposition, self-denial
«In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.»
Author: Conan O'Brien
(Writer)
| Keywords:
ban, banned, Cleveland, legislation, opposition, pants, plumber, plumbers
«It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition»
Author: Vernon Howard
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opposition
«I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
in opposition, opposition, role, spent
«My opposition [To Interviews] lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
decline, English language, give and take, interviewed, interviewing, interviews, off-hand, offhand, opposition, oral, perpetuate, perpetuated, perpetuating, The Decline, the English, The Interview
«If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.»
Author: Leon Trotsky
| Keywords:
arouse, Bridges, disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating, hostile, imperative, imperatives, intelligentsia, internal, intolerant, intolerant of, laying, laying on of hands, monuments, opposition, peasantry, proletariat, revolutionary, standard, tendency, the revolution, threatens
«It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and mortal persecution»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abhorrence, anxious, expect, mortal, opposition, oppositions, persecution, persecutions, reform, reformer, reforming, society
«It may likewise contribute to soften that resentment which pride naturally raises against opposition, if we consider, that he who differs from us, does not always contradict us; he has one view of an object, and we have another; each describes what h»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
contradict, contribute, describes, differs, likewise, opposition, raises, resentment, soften