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• The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what… — Ambrose Bierce
• I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. — Albert Camus
• In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself. — Eric Cantona
• I think we have no apologies to make. We were in a state of global rivalry with a global adversary. — Unknown Author
• Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a… — Alexander Hamilton
• When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We… — Brian Day
• The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling… — Sun Tzu
• With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots,… — Sun Tzu
• The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls… — Sun Tzu
• Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international… — J. William Fulbright
• No-one will ever have golf under his thumb. No round ever will be so good it could not have been… — Bobby Jones

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