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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide  (Against Quotes) I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema  (Against Quotes) It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it’s just an absolutely huge win  (Against Quotes) The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction  (Against Quotes) It’s better for me to go up against someone’s passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things  (Against Quotes) When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations  (Against Quotes) I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the charges that were lodged against me or my deceased parents at this time  (Against Quotes) Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn’t care, either  (Against Quotes) I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin  (Against Quotes) Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks  (Against Quotes) That’s always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you’re attempting to do  (Against Quotes) No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism  (Against Quotes) I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous  (Against Quotes) You see I’m against hunting, in fact I’m a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox  (Against Quotes) The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history  (Against Quotes) Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed  (Against Quotes) You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did  (Against Quotes) Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority  (Against Quotes) Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish  (Against Quotes) None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what’s going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature  (Against Quotes) Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape  (Against Quotes) My mother’s illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty  (Against Quotes) It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others  (Against Quotes) Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us  (Against Quotes) The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil  (Against Quotes) To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us  (Against Quotes) I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward  (Against Quotes) He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success  (Against Quotes) We’ve always been here and we’ll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn’t we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you’re able to is almost impossible to comprehend  (Against Quotes) A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go  (Against Quotes)
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