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Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux

Art, Fate, Revolt

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Emily Bronte

Him, Down, Turn

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.
Marco Rubio

Remember, Afraid, Idea

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
Eliot Spitzer

Best, Death, End

'Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is; whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else.
Angie Stone

Dreams, Positive, Yourself

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence

Family, Men, Free

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
Alexander Graham Bell

Nor, Army, Neither

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
Bruce Springsteen

Fire, Between, Optimism

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?
Newt Gingrich

Find, Church, Key

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
Fred Durst

Words, Sound, Rage

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Great, War, Answer

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
Eric Butterworth

God, Evil, Thinking

Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished.
Georgia O'Keeffe

After, Wonderful, Finished

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
Craig Bruce

Funny, Chance, Social

I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
J. C. Watts

Order, Secure, Accepted

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Adventure, Nuclear, Weapons

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.
Simon Wiesenthal

Justice, Humanity, Crimes

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Mind, Game, Cannot

When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
Wayne Gretzky

Play, Playing, Stronger

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
John Foster Dulles

Government, Violence, Protect

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
Brian Eno

Life, Nothing, Making

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
Brian Eno

Work, Children, Free

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Strange, Cannot, Until

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.
Brigitte Bardot

Goal, Wanted, Rules

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
William E. Gladstone

Time, Future, Fight

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian Smith

Woman, Hard, Giving

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.
Isaiah Berlin

Men, Human, Control

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
Mitch Albom

Life, Best, Focus

I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not.
Marco Rubio

Two, Tell, Running

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.
Marco Rubio

Life, Home, Political

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