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I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

– Martin Luther King Jr., A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967

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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.

– Michel de Montaigne

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Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

– Isaac Asimov

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In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

– Muhammad Ali

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A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

– William Arthur Ward

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When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes

– Christian Cardell Corbet

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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

– Ed Koch

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We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

– Colley Cibber

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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

– William Faulkner

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Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

– Unknown

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Let the punishment match the offense.

– Cicero

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