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Be mindful of the difference between being aware of your antagonist and becoming obsessed with them.
They were a symbol of civility — a reminder that, at tables like Richelieu's, you were expected to settle your arguments with piercing conversation, not by stabbing your antagonist.
This is your antagonist.
You need your antagonist.
Your antagonist will also motivate you.
Your antagonist will show you exactly how not to be.
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While there is undoubtedly a visceral thrill in finally setting out after your antagonists, the history of administrations that have successfully taken on the media and won is shorter than this sentence.
Congress is split right down the middle, or nearly so; the last two presidential elections have been achingly close; half the nation, almost by definition, must disagree with you politically — and yet you have probably met very few of your antagonists.
It's important to do this in a way that doesn't undermine relationships with those who may have started out as your antagonists in a blocking coalition, only to emerge as potential members of a winning alliance.
And if any of you believe that what we urge is expedient, but fear to act upon this belief, lest it should lead to a breach of the treaty, you must remember that on the one hand, whatever your fears, your strength will be formidable to your antagonists; on the other, whatever the confidence you derive from refusing to receive us, your weakness will have no terrors for a strong enemy.
Where selfishness is a sin or a crime, everyone is guilty; you don't want your antagonists gaining the authority to sit in judgment.
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