#against

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#editor #every #field #i #letter

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time. ↗

— Anna Sui

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The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#cave #day #desert #divorce #farmer

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#communism #crusade #even #imaginary #more

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

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They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

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It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it. ↗

— James Bovard

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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

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