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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson

Reason, Ridicule, Resort

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller

War, Strike, Battles

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

Hope, Away, Vote

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
Bob Marley

Music, Live, Die

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

Reason, Read, Reading

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford

Everything, Remember, Off

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Martin Luther

God, Help, Cannot

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
John Lennon

Society, Live, Mean

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

God, Wisdom, Pain

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Enemy, Another

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

True, Him, Genius

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love, God, Today

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Lies, Himself

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi

Work, Society, Football

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran

Live, Powerful, Humanity

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
Aristotle

Time, Angry, Moment

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
Socrates

Courage, Enemy, Away

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Reality, Enjoy

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Barack Obama

Islam, Fight, Negative

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle

Nature, Moral, Nor

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton

Integrity, Different, Purpose

A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Strength, Strong

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost

Life, Whatever, Accept

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life, True, Last

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia

Down, Play, Wind

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rather, Existence, Argument

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Him, Party

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing, Few, Spirit

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