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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

William Ellery Channing

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

Nguyen Cao Ky

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

Brian Eno

Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against.

Cass Elliot

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

Gloria Grahame

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

Jeff Buckley

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Jeremy Rifkin

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

Laura Schlessinger

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

Nita Ambani

My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.

Nick Cave

I don't know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn't been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Ty Cobb

We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds.

Igor Ivanov

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.

E. O. Wilson

It is highly important to always know whether your daily thoughts are working for you or against you.

Edmond Mbiaka

The only person that you should live your life competing against, is nobody else but your old self.

Edmond Mbiaka

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

Ezra Pound

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

Edward Snowden

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

F. H. Bradley

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

Friedrich Durrenmatt