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It's perfectly possible to hold two opposing points of view in the mind at once, oscillating between them.
— S.J. Watson
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords but a slender guarantee for being right.
— William E. Gladstone
I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.
— Collin C. Peterson
The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
— Havelock Ellis
An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.
— Newton Lee
Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.
— Charlie Trotter
The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot.
— James N. Frey
It's about believing two opposing ideas in your head at the same time: hope and grief.
— Claire Fuller
It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
— William H. Seward
Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
— Elliott Carter
What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up.
— Ava Zavora
I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.
— Marina Leigh Duff
Success depends on our using, and not opposing ...
— Thomas Troward
Christianity and communism cannot be reconciled;they are opposing systems. — Frederick Nymeyer
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
Global warming is too serious for the world any longer to ignore its danger or split into opposing factions on it.
— Tony Blair
You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
— Charlie Munger
No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq.
— Dick Morris
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.
— Desmond Tutu
Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
— Sharon Begley
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.
— Stephan Kinsella
I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.
— Randall Robinson
There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear, and there are desires to die, fought by two
opposing waters that have never isthmused. — Cesar Vallejo
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
— Ryan Reynolds
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
— Matthew Lesko
I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.
— Patrick J. Kennedy
What is a human being, if not a repository for the coexistence of opposing impulses?
— Yonason Goldson
The paradox is the result of two opposing truths existing side by side, which can be both right.
— Pearl Zhu
The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.
— David J. Lieberman
Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.
— Michael Meade
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The key to handling conflict is to make sure people understand it's okay to have an opposing view.
— Eunice Parisi-Carew
Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.
— William Weld
I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
— Rabih Alameddine
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.
— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.
— Mike Huckabee
To be and not to be are just two ideas opposing each other. But they are not reality, and they do not describe reality.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The worldly life has persisted due to imitation of worldly movements and by opposing them, one becomes free.
— Dada Bhagwan
To each virtue there is an opposing vice; hence the wicked take vices for virtues.
— Saint Nikodimos
Opposing the father is no picnic and not opposing the father is no picnic - that's what he was discovering.
— Philip Roth
Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.
— Robert Breault
The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
— Wendell Berry
Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
— Errico Malatesta
It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing.
— Richard Dawkins
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,
— Deborah Harkness
The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.
— Robert Gilpin
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that the sign of a superior mind is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time.
— Sherman Alexie
I'm consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry.
— Barack Obama
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
— Francis Collins
The only actions that do not cause opposing reactions are those that are aimed at the good of all.
— Eckhart Tolle
I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.
— David Salle
Only disaster can follow divided counsels and opposing wills.
— Thomas John Barnardo
The way to win battles, wars and games is by attacking and overrunning the opposing side.
— Alex Ferguson
There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.
— Roger L'Estrange
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Overall, people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.19
— Margaret Heffernan
Moderation is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically planting yourself there.
— David Brooks
The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.
— Criss Jami
Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.
— Michael Spiller
In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.
— Eugen Herrigel
Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.
— Newt Gingrich
One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expensive of logic.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.
— Anita Roddick
In opposing Communism, we are defeating ourselves if we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I always like to remind leaders who talk about their search for balance that the word itself means a resting place between two opposing forces.
— Greg Salciccioli
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
— Henri Frederic Amiel
The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed.
— Meir Soloveichik
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
— Carol Bishop Hipps
It takes a stronger person to restrain from retaliation, then opposing to someone who's filled with vengeance
— Takina Cupp
What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith.
— Lindsey Graham
Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.
— Seimone Augustus
Here is one more book that depicts the struggle of a human creature, under those opposing influences of Good and Evil,
— Wilkie Collins
Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.
— John Fugelsang
We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.
— Barack Obama
FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.
— Ambrose Bierce
