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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
Plato / Philosopher
Philosophical
Plato
Good Always Must
Antagonistic
Good Always Something
Remain
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
Gary Mccord / Golfer
Golfers
Pants
Scream
Adjust
Antagonistic
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Identity is never singular but is multiply constructed across intersecting and antagonistic discourses, practices and positions.
Stuart Hall /
Identity
Across
Antagonistic
Never
Constructed
Multiply
Positions
Practices
Singular
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When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.
Emile Coue / Psychologist
Imagination
Conflict
Exception
Power Always Will
Antagonistic
Wins
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Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Dictatorship
Egypt
Israel
Mubarak
Public Opinion
Antagonistic
Interpreted
Relations
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I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.
Lydia Lunch / Singer
Beaten
Genocide
Horrible
Stubborn
Thinking
Antagonistic
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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May / Psychologist
Relationship
Commitment
Doubt
Spite
Antagonistic
Between
Means
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I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.
Joan Jett / Guitarist
Audience
Believe
Fun
Having Fun
Opening
Struggle
Antagonistic
Fight
Struggling
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The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.
Cindy Sherman / Photographer
Accepted
Collectors
Critics
Horrific
Antagonistic
Works
Easily
Deliberately
Towards
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We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
Anita Hill / Attorney
History
Bias
Court
Gender
Justice
Prejudice
Pursuit
Race
Antagonistic
Based
Excluding
Individuals
System
Undermine
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
Wallace Stevens / Poet
New York
Fascinating
Foolish
Mirrors
Stupid
Unreal
Walking
Walking Away
Antagonistic
Everybody Else
Horribly
Interests
Tireless
Undoubtedly
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When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.
Robert J. Sawyer / Writer
Intelligent
Machines
No Reason
Twice
Antagonistic
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I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.
David Longstreth /
Chords
Instruments
Locked
Mentality
Antagonistic
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Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
Charles Scott Sherrington / Neurophysiologist
Confined
Muscles
Nervous
Study
Antagonistic
Central
Extensive
Finds
Further
Inhibition
Likely
Solely
Ubiquitous
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
Garet Garrett / Journalist
Class
Difficulty
Economic
Problem
Revolutionary
Theory
Two
Antagonistic
Classes
Interests
Solution
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In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.
Trofim Lysenko / Experimenter
Biology
Branches
Defined
Epoch
Opposing
Struggle
Antagonistic
Nearly
Particularly
Foundations
Penetrating
Sharply
Worlds
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I don't like the fact that North Korea is testing nuclear weapons, and I don't like the fact that they're testing missiles and shooting them out in the sea in kind of an antagonistic fashion.
Scott Desjarlais /
Missiles
North Korea
Nuclear
Sea
Shooting
Weapons
Antagonistic
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French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi / Tunisian Politician
Religion
Aggressive
Models
Reconciliation
Secularism
World
Antagonistic
French
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Art can contextualise and buttress fame. So rather than being antagonistic in the way Fugazi would have had it in 1989, particularly in the present, maybe they are one - they belong to one another.
David Longstreth /
Antagonistic
Belong
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As a teenager and a student, I totally cast away the Christian faith. I just believed it was stupid, and only stupid people could believe it. I actually became an anti-Christian, and very antagonistic.
Frederica Mathewes-Green / Author
Faith
Christian Faith
Stupid
Stupid People
Totally
Faith Believe People
Actually
Antagonistic
Became
Believed
Cast
Student
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Politics is always antagonistic and tribalistic. But social media puts us in isolated information bubbles. We're not just disagreeing on politics. We're disagreeing on reality in very fundamental ways.
Contrapoints /
Bubbles
Information
Isolated
Media
Reality
Social Media
Antagonistic
Fundamental
Puts
Ways
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Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
Anne Lamott / Novelist
Kids
Bitter
Catastrophe
Caught
Children
Mess
Unhappy
Years
Antagonistic
Grown
Marriages
Till
Stayed
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I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.
Whitfield Diffie / Cryptographer
Explanation
Human Freedom
Lecturing
Antagonistic
Proposals
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When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw /
Feminism
Gender
Patriarchy
Race
Being
Antagonistic
Does
End
Both
Often
Each
Explicitly
Incorporate
Interests
Lose
Oppose
Other
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The bedrock foundation of any rational immigration policy should be to benefit America rather than benefiting potential or existing immigrants, or any other specific group, whether favorable or antagonistic to them.
Robert Zubrin / Author
Bedrock
Immigrants
Immigration Policy
Rational
Antagonistic
Benefit
Existing
Favorable
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The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
Georg Simmel / Philosopher
Circles
Contemporary
Historical
Social
Strange
Antagonistic
Circle
Closed
Earliest
Firmly
Small
Neighboring
Relatively
Phase
Structures
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You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Animal
Arms
Bunch
Depends
Plant
Race
Thinking
Almost Everything
Antagonistic
Ecosystem
Races
Soon
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Even when Darwin's teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.
Trofim Lysenko / Experimenter
Appearance
Biology
Core
Evolution
Idealism
Antagonistic
Concerning
Darwin
Materialist
Reigned
Scientific
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Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.
Blase J. Cupich /
Feel Good
Openness
Respectful
Good People Feel
Good Feel Good People
Antagonistic
Unnecessarily
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I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
Bobby Knight / Basketball Coach
Enjoyed
Antagonistic
Attempted
Coach
Writers
Press
Rarely
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It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
Jennifer Beals / Film Actress
Friendship
Clear
Directors
Foolish
Lost Friendship
Negative
Use
Antagonistic
Became
Director
Relationships
Tried
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I think there's something antagonistic about bedroom pop. We're reappropriating pop and saying you don't have to be an ex-Disney star to make pop music. You can be from Shepherd's Bush and have spent most of your life listening to the Smiths and still make a pop record.
Shura /
Bedroom
Pop Music
Life Music Your
Antagonistic
Bush
Star
Record
Pop
Saying
Shepherd
Spent
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The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.
Beau Willimon / Playwright
Mouthpiece
News
Odds
Setting
Wake Up
Antagonistic
Concert
Simply
Politicians
Work Morning Wake Up
Expose
Press
Symbiotic
Uncover
Wake
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