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It definitely could have got to us, we could have done the exact opposite and thrown in the towel. Instead we won pretty much the rest of our games. (Quote by - Dan Moser)

I don't think Bush would have gone down there if he knew he'd run into this kind of opposition, ... The FTAA may not be completely dead, but it's close to dead and the body's twitching. (Quote by - Mark Weisbrot)

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller)

Opposition strengthens the manly will. (Quote by - Amos Bronson Alcott)

Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time. (Quote by - Justin Langer)

Now, when BJP is in opposition, it has raised the issue again. (Quote by - Brinda Karat)

Told of the study, which will be published Monday, some conservatives repeated their opposition to making the credit more of an antipoverty program. This is completely and utterly predictable, ... People who don't pay taxes don't get a tax cut. (Quote by - Dan Mitchell)

Think of the contrast. Brixton in the 1870s. Dark, smoky, foggy London, the opposite of what we associate with Van Gogh's art: the bright colors and the sunny, open scenes in Provence. (Quote by - Nicholas Wright)

The mateyness the team has displayed towards the opposition over the last month suggests the ruthless intent of last summer has been lacking. (Quote by - Mike Atherton)

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. (Quote by - Edward Levi)

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game. (Quote by - Jeremy Irons)

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate. (Quote by - Kenneth Clarke)

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics. (Quote by - Brian Ferneyhough)

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)

No, quite the opposite, my balance sheet has never looked better. (Quote by - Dali Tambo)

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them. (Quote by - Dr. June Singer)

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. (Quote by - Ernestine L. Rose)

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions! (Quote by - Margaret J. Wheatley)

Difficulties, opposition, criticism - these things are meant to be overcome, and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it. (Quote by - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit)

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence. (Quote by - Antony Jay)

It's the opposite of buying a spread in a newspaper or a slew of 30-second slots on TV, ... Studios need to stop trying to reach the most people and focus on reaching the best people. (Quote by - Joseph Jaffe)

They kind of walked in with a swagger, ... We showed some people on the opposite sideline that we won't back down we'll come after them. (Quote by - Dan Walker)

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. (Quote by - Ben Hogan)

I think right now what you're looking at is not whether or not the opposition will build or exist, but rather when that opposition will be announced with sufficient critical mass to indicate the battle has been joined. This is in the process of developing. (Quote by - Wade Henderson)

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