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The idea is to have an argument that is so powerful that it knocks out your opponents.

They are the toughest opponents.

So people tell me I'm a nice person ... to the point where it's part of my personal and professional identity that I'm so nice and able to get along with anyone, even my most fierce opponents.

And I love this: "Watson Vanquishes Human Opponents."

Death penalty opponents take great solace in the fact that death penalty support in Texas is at an all-time low.

So I want to tell you that, if you have some crazy ideas in your mind, and that people tell you that it's impossible to make, well, that's an even better reason to want to do it, because people have a tendency to see the problems rather than the final result, whereas if you start to deal with problems as being your allies rather than your opponents, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing way.

I can collaborate with my opponents to become better at what I do.

We got a lot of criticism, a lot of opposition, and a lot of opponents.

And these movements have been incredibly effective and popular, so in 1985, their opponents made up a new word, eco-terrorist, to shift how we view them.

In fact, many people of Muslim heritage around the world are staunch opponents both of fundamentalism and of terrorism, and often for very good reason.

So in my view, if we consider ourselves liberal or left-wing, human rights-loving or feminist, we must oppose these movements and support their grassroots opponents.

And this brings me to my next lesson: Never underestimate your opponents.

In the case of gun control, we really underestimated our opponents.

We thought people would vote in defense of life, but in a country with a recent past of military dictatorship, the anti-government message of our opponents resonated, and we were not prepared to respond.

It is true that some people have made these arguments before, but we've made a difference by anticipating the arguments of our opponents and by leveraging powerful voices that a few years ago would probably have resisted change.

To them, the violence they see is the consequence of tensions between President Kabila and various national opponents, and tensions between Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.

With his championship belt, he wrestled in big-ticket venues, like Madison Square Garden, against big-time opponents, like Everett "The Blonde Bear" Marshall, or three-time world champion, Angelo Savoldi.

That's what psychologists call the phenomenon of assuming that your ideology is based in love but your opponents' ideology is based in hate.

Powerful opponents are not going to give people what they want just because they asked nicely ... or even not so nicely.

Nonviolent campaigns are also less likely to cause physical harm to those waging the campaign, as well as their opponents.

In fact, rather than working from predefined recipes, Watson had to use reasoning to overcome his human opponents.

Those risks may not be as huge and as scary as some of the opponents of medical marijuana would have us believe, but they are real risks, nonetheless.

One doesn't discuss religion or politics or increasingly, the politics of popular culture, at the dinner table, because these are the disagreements, these are the things that people really, seriously disagree about, and they define themselves against their opponents in the controversy.

So if civility is the virtue that makes it possible to tolerate disagreement so that we can actually engage with our opponents, talking about civility seems to be mainly a strategy of disengagement.

Because the funny thing about incivility is that it's always the sin of our opponents.

When it comes to our own bad behavior, well, we seem to develop sudden-onset amnesia, or we can always justify it as an appropriate response to the latest outrage from our opponents.

Catholic, opponents.

And of course, those Catholic opponents clutched their pearls and called for civility then, too, but all the while, they gave as good as they got with traditional slurs like "heretic," and, worst of all, "Protestant," which began in the 16th century as an insult.

So mere civility is having the courage to make yourself disagreeable, and to stay that way, but to do so while staying in the room and staying present to your opponents.

I knew what to expect from my opponents and what to expect from myself.

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