#against

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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As an athlete, I used my speed, agility and quickness to go out and play against the big guys. ↗

— Michael Chang

#agility #athlete #big #big guys #go

I just feel like it would be so against my personality to have this struggle in tennis and just give up. I know it's not me, not who I am, and that would probably affect other parts of my life. ↗

— Michael Chang

#against #am #feel #give #i

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attack #attacks #attempted #back #because

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#anyone #contributing #hatred #having #i

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#event #every #happen #just #manipulate

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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