"No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of… — Annie Besant
• He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. — Edmund Burke
• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided… — Joseph Addison
• The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his… — Lafcadio Hearn
• Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to… — Thomas Jefferson
• Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human… — Thomas Jefferson
• The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a… — James Madison
• No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which,… — Nathaniel Branden
• It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose… — Eric Hobsbawm
• A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws… — Joseph Addison
• He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it… — Emanuel Lasker

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