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Opposition
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“Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution ...”
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“To oppose something is to maintain it.”
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“... every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.”
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“How happy are the bellicose. / I love opposers who oppose / Extremely and rebuke with ease / The certitudes, the verities.”
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“... I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.”
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“People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.”
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“Nothing attracts me like a closed door.”
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“Unlike lions and dogs, we are a dissenting animal. We need to dissent in the same way that we need to travel, to make money, to keep a record of our time on earth and in dream, and to leave a permanent mark. Dissension is a drive, like those drives.”
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“The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct ratio to the intensity with which others try to prove him wrong.”