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141 quotesEvery author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Writers and Writing
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
Wisdom
Oliver Goldsmith
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When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Literary Criticism
Albert Guinon
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An autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
Biography
Barbara G. Harris
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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Goodness
Georg Hegel
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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.
Business
Bruce Henderson
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I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Police
Alfred Hitchcock
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One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.
Punishment
Hitopadesa
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Opinions
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
Aid and Assistance
Horace
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Thoughts and Thinking
Aldous Huxley
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
Time and Time Management
Thomas H. Huxley
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I am against government by crony.
Corruption
Harold L. Ickes
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Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Ridicule
Thomas Jefferson
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Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.
Stupidity
Jewish Proverb
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
Public Opinion
Samuel Johnson
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All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Freedom
Samuel Johnson
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson
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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
Fights and Fighting
Mother Jones
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
Opposition
Robert F. Kennedy
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You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Basketball
Bobby Knight
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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Change
Joseph Wood Krutch
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Memory
Milan Kundera
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Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
Taxes and Taxation
Saul Landau
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Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
Skepticism
Latin Proverb
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun