#opposing

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that? ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#between #contradictions #daydream #diametrically #get

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#always #been #censorship #forefront #libraries

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#equal #flanks #forces #inevitable #long

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#bring #duo #employed #fore #movements

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#agree #arguing #cannot #deeply #definition

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#cured #ignorance #know #leaders #many

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#discrimination #i #i see #marriages #opposing

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#because #carrier #could #curve #hit

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#ballots #collecting #contact #counting #day