"I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!"
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"The height of strategy, is to attack your opponent's strategy."
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"So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat."
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"Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole."
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"I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up."
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"If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents."
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"We'll do whatever it takes to score as many points as we can-and definitely one more point than the opponent."
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"I trim my opponents to fit my arrows."
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"Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions."
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"If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel."
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"If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer."
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"If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire."
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"A Warrior of Light never resorts to trickery, but he knows how to distract his opponent."
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"I do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population can be kept from increasing. There are others, which, one must suppose, opponents of birth control would prefer."
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"Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly."
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"The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve."
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"Our opponents see an America in which every day is April 15, tax day. Well, we see an America in which every day is the Fourth of July."
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"We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies."
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"The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent."
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"It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions."
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