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The only one who can beat me is me.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Gain from your opponents without sacrificing your own strength.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than by the arguments of its opponents.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.

Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.