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Against Quotes by Frederick Lenz
- The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against…
- If someone else runs faster than you or makes more money than you or is more adept at anything, that doesn't mean you have lost.…
- Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.
- We are alive for a certain period of time in any given lifetime. We are competing against time. It is a race to see if…
- A species divided against itself will eventually fall.
- Because they dream so strongly in themselves, their superiority and women's inferiority, they project an image that a woman finds very, very difficult to fight…
- You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of…
- Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became…
- The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
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- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange