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«To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself»
Author: Ivan Turgenev
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defect, mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying, opponent, reproach
«Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.»
«The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.»
Author: Sydney J. Harris
(Author, Journalist)
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apparent, escape hatch, gracefully, hatch, hatching, opponent, swing, swing over
«We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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absence, Absences, especial, ITS, notice, opponent, place, possession, take notice, total, totals, value, valued at, valuing, virtue
«The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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nonetheless, opponent, poorest, strongest, successes, total, vanity
«The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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assuming, Catholic, communist, opponent, The Catholic
«The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.»
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