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That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing?

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

First off, the PS2 and PSP can play against each other online.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented.

However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system.

The press seems to love pitting women against each other.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.