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One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.