THIS EDITION: fight
Quoted in the Grove:
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
~John Eldredge
I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
~Paul Watson
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.
~Nikos Kazantzakis
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If you want to be a legend you have to fight with legends.
~Aleksei Oleinik
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Exercise Prompt for next time: fame
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
~George S Patton
The truth is, the harder you fight, the sweeter are the rewards in the end.
~Mary Kom
I have not yet begun to fight!
~John Paul Jones
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If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.
~Jordan Peterson
If you leave without a fight, you will get the name of a coward.
~Rajinikanth
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Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.
~Erwin Rommel
He that fights and runs away,
May turn and fight another day;
But he that is in battle slain,
Will never rise to fight again.
~Tacitus
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
~Sun Tzu
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
~Norman Vincent Peale
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
~Gene Roddenberry
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How much can you know about yourself if you’ve never been in a fight?
~Jim Uhls (Fight Club, 1999 script)
If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
~Jimmy Doolittle
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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend!
It’s not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
~Robert Herrick
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
~Blaise Pascal
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
~William Morris
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
~Jean Rostand
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In the third month, the sun rising,
the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight;
The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens,
sees an eagle playing around the sun.
~Nostradamus
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
~Richard Wright
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Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
~Lionel Richie
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
~Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life’s full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn’t matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
~Bear Grylls
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~Ashley Smith
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
~Paulo Coelho
To fight fear, act. To increase fear ‒ wait, put off postpone.
~David Joseph Schwartz
It’s about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
~Robin Roberts
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At first I wasn’t sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
~Gordon Parks (photog, poet, composer, director, etc)
I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.
~Dhanush
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And then there’s all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I’m always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
~Shirley Manson
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me… but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
~Ty Cobb
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We’re designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
~Joe Rogan
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You never know what battles people fight.
~Francois Hougaard
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Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
~James Longstreet
If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper.
~Kendrick Lamar
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
~Rita Mae Brown
We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.
~Stacey Abrams
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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
~Voltaire
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
~Thomas Carlyle
When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
~Pierre Corneille
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Americans are good with to-do lists; just tell us what to do, and we’ll do it. Throughout our history, we have proven that. Colonize. Check. Win our independence. Check. Form a union. Check. Expand to the Pacific. Check. Settle the West. Check. Keep the Union together. Check. Industrialize. Check. Fight the Nazis. Check.
~Marianne Williamson
Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.
~Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you’re in a fight.
~Michael Jordan
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Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.
~Arthur Miller
War’s not black and white; it’s gray. If you don’t fight in the gray area, you’re going to lose.
~Marcus Luttrell
Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
~Canelo Alvarez
I think its man’s nature to go to war and fight.
~Talib Kweli
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I know that I shall meet my fate
somewhere among the clouds above;
those that I fight I do not hate,
those that I guard I do not love.
~William Butler Yeats
It doesn’t matter what cards you’re dealt. It’s what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.
~Baker Mayfield
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He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
~Socrates (Greek, stayed to drink his hemlock)
We must see our present fight right through to the very end.
~Bobby Sands (Irish, fatal hunger strike)
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.
~Emilie Autumn
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If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
~Linda Ellerbee
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
~Virginia Woolf
I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It’s this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that’s God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we’re swimming away from the purest expression of this life.
~Michael J Fox
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I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
~Nikos Kazantzakis
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
~Paulo Coelho
The Estimate and Valour of a Man consist in the Heart, and in the Will, there his true Honour lives… If his Legs fail him, he Fights upon his Knees.
~Michel de Montaigne
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After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
~Wilfred Owen (poet/soldier)
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.
~David Herbert Lawrence
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
~Ernie Pyle (war correspondent)
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
~Clara Barton (Civil War/Red Cross)
Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.
~William Manchester
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
~Thomas a Kempis
A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.
~David Goggins
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ‒ means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~e e cummings
The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.
~Robin S Sharma
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Posted From The Grove
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
~Jorge Luis Borges
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
~Thomas Carlyle
Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
~Henri Barbusse
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
~Aleister Crowley
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
~Hypatia
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
~William Hazlitt
If it were not for fighting shadows we should be strong enough for realities.
~Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy, The Saturday Evening Post
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If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.
~Sun Tzu
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
~Sun Tzu
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
~Sun Tzu
He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
~Sun Tzu
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. ~Herbert Hoover
When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
~Jean-Paul Sartre
In our Country… one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
~William Tecumseh Sherman
I don’t feel a lack of hope. It’s just disappointment that after all these years we’re still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.
~Geezer Butler
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
~Edward Abbey
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
~Yochai Benkler
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There are two ways to fight the United States military: asymmetrically and stupid. Asymmetrically means you’re going to try to avoid our strengths. In the 1991 Gulf War, it’s like we called Saddam’s army out into the schoolyard and beat up that army.
~H R McMaster
Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can’t. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn’t want to fight somebody.
~Andrew Vachss
My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
~Brent Scowcroft
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The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
~Bruno Dumont
The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
~Golda Meir
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter’s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
~Yasser Arafat
The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.
~Natan Sharansky
We must fight terrorism as if there’s no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there’s no terror.
~Yitzhak Rabin
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What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can’t do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt.
~Chesty Puller (decorated Marine)
There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.
~Tom Clancy
So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
~Barack Obama
No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.
~Phyllis Schlafly
The biggest problem was the politicians knew nothing about fighting a war.
~R Lee Ermey
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
~Ulysses S Grant
I’m crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don’t like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.
~Shelby Foot
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
~William Tecumseh Sherman (Civil War’s March to the Sea)
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You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don’t have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you’ve finished, nothing’s changed. You’ve still lost.
~Rafael Nadal
The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That’s the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.
~Naseem Hamed
We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
~Robert E Lee
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I hope my own children never have to fight a war.
~George H W Bush
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We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
~Joe Baca
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
~Roger Nash Baldwin
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.
~Bill Vaughan
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
~Thomas Hobbes
Don’t fight the problem, decide it.
~George C Marshall
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He’s fighting for a group ethic of some sort.
~C J Cherryh
When I wrap my hands, I do it for my family. I owe my courage to them and also my success. That’s why I fight.
~Gennady Golovkin (middleweight champ)
The world wants men to-day more than it ever did before, for the possibilities are greater than in any period of its existence. We want men who can see, and who can fight. We need them badly.
~Charles F Raymond, 1907
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
~Pancho Villa
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
~George S Patton
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
~Dwight D Eisenhower
If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
~Horatio Nelson (Admiral, Royal Navy)
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I’ve always wanted to fight for people who didn’t have arms. I’ve always wanted to speak up for people who don’t have a voice. I’ve always wanted to protect people who couldn’t protect themselves. It’s my nature. It’s my instinct.
~Sophia Bush
Now, myself, I’m not a pacifist at all. I believe in just war. I would have joined the spirit of the nation to fight against apartheid.
~Cornel West
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
~Imran Khan
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
~Nelson Mandela
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
~Nelson Mandela
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
~Oliver Tambo (South Africa)
I was so hooked by the fight for freedom that nothing mattered to us so long as we fulfilled the dream of years and years of our people being liberated. I thought normal life would come the day after.
~Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
~Thomas Jefferson
Though hearts be torn asunder, for Freedom we will fight…
~Lucy Larcom
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
~Walter Annenberg
You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that’s it ‒ there’s no turning back.
~Jon English
We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.
~Billy Parish
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
~Bernard Law Montgomery
Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.
~Leymah Gbowee
Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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We are opposed to the line of compromise with imperialism. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the practice of only shouting against imperialism, but, in actual fact, being afraid to fight it.
~Kim Il-sung
To fight the United States is like fighting the whole world. But it has been decided. So I will fight the best I can.
~Isoroku Yamamoto
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We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.
~Vinoba Bhave (Indian pacifist)
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
~Yoweri Museveni (Uganda)
A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you’re not dedicated to your cause, if you don’t have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.
~Norman Schwarzkopf
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Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
~Mary Harris Jones
The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.
~Cesar Chavez
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
~Malala Yousafzai
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
~Eugene V Debs
We are all one – or at least we should be – and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
~Roy Barnes
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When I was growing up, it was ‘Communists’. Now it’s ‘Terrorists’. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.
~Cindy Sheehan
Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldn’t bother fighting it.
~Craig Bruce
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
~Zell Miller
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
~Anna Lindh
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
~Madeleine Albright
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Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.
~Mikhail Gorbachev
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~Guillaume Néry: AMA (6:36) at one with the water, to music
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~Ireneusz Mukiewicz: Fight (0:49) cat & dog, friendly ferocity
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~Ian Frederick: Flora (1:27) color, in a non-lethal explosion
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~adelaide sherry: Ashes and Snow (4:25) visual, then spoken. fluid poetry
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~The New Yorker: Affairs of the Art (16:25) scenes from an artisit’s life, unabashedly animated
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If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets – not to have a fair fight.
~Michael Bloomberg
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
~June Jordan
If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.
~Paul Wellstone
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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.
~James Rado
When I was saying, ‘White people go to hell,’ I never had trouble finding a publisher. But when I say, ‘Black and white unite and fight, destroy capitalism,’ then you suddenly become unreasonable.
~Amiri Baraka
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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
~John Lennon
Sometimes, you get tired of fighting. I think you just sort of come to this realization that yes, that you will get tired, but that doesn’t mean that you can give up the fight.
~Jesmyn Ward
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Fight hierarchy and bureaucracy as hard as you possibly can. Don’t ever let it become the master; always remember it’s the servant.
~Herb Kelleher
Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don’t fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.
~James Veitch
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Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?
~Tupac Shakur
When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
~Queen Rania of Jordan
Do I think it’s OK to fight authority as long as you’re only talking about the high school teacher? No.
~John Mellencamp
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
~Yuri Kochiyama
They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
~Louis Farrakhan
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The human being is very resourceful. When you fight for survival, you don’t think much; you just do. If you think too much, you sink.
~Frank Lowy
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
~George Orwell
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
~Henrik Ibsen
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
~Harriet Tubman
If I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.
~Fannie Lou Hamer
Every successful social movement in this country’s history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.
~Alicia Garza
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Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.
~Rush Limbaugh
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They’re people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.
~Clarence Thomas
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
~Karl Marx
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be.
~Sonia Sotomayor
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
~Norman Cousins
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The Declaration of Independence promised citizens equal access to economic opportunity. This was the powerful principle for which men were willing to fight the American Revolution, but it was never codified in law. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they assumed that the country’s vast resources would ensure equality of opportunity.
~Heather Cox Richardson
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
~Adlai E Stevenson
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
~Winston Churchill
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
~Winston Churchill
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In ‘The King’s Speech,’ patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn’t become complicated over time.
~Tom Hooper
On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a ‘Restoring Honor’ revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
~James Wolcott
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered [1949] without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of patriotic newsreels would put the Union Jack jigsaw together again. From then on, I was slightly suspicious of all British adults.
~J G Ballard
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My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
~Justin Trudeau
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I think that communalism [regionalism] is the cancer of our society, and if we have to protect the humanity and the unity and integrity of this country, then we will have to fight the communal forces.
~Mamata Banerjee (India)
Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.
~Ludwig von Mises
In America, now, let us – Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever – fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one’s enemies. A tall order, that – perhaps the tallest of all.
~Jon Meacham
Intersectionality has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion.
~Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
~Thomas A Edison (pre-Hiroshima)
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
~Ansel Adams
In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it’s for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
~David Suzuki
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
~Margaret Thatcher
Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you’ve got to let them know it.
~Orlando Cepeda
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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
~Winston Churchill
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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.
~Billy Sunday (prohibition)
I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
~Douglas Rushkoff
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Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
~John Bolton
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We’ve got to keep an eye on the battle that we face – a war on workers. And you see it everywhere… And there’s only one way to beat and win that war – the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
~James P Hoffa
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Concentration of executive power, unless it’s very temporary and for specific circumstances, let’s say fighting world war two, it’s an assault on democracy.
~Noam Chomsky
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
~Buenaventura Durruti (Spain)
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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
~Wendell Willkie
You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
~Malcolm X
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Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
~The Waterbury American
Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~D H Lawrence
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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.
~Neville Chamberlain
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
~Luc de Clapiers
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Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.
~Fred Hampton
We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.
~Lal Bahadur Shastri
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
~Dwight D Eisenhower
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I despise all those who fight for peace. It’s only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
~Ram Gopal Varma
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Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
~George Carlin
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~Albert Einstein
I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies.
~Jose Maria Aznar (Spain)
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
~George McGovern
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§ VIDEO:
In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it’s a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.
~Novak Djokovic
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
~James J Corbett
Belief is the most important thing in football. Not quality, running, or being strong but belief, faith, and fight.
~Mauricio Pochettino
In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
~Erwin Rommel
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Some guys like to fight on even playing grounds, and some guys like to cheat.
~Deontay Wilder
If you get into a fight, don’t take your helmet off. We’re looking for smart football players, not dumb ones.
~Mike Leach
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses ‒ behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
~Muhammad Ali
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
~Ernest Hemingway
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Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events… and nothing is like the fights to me. I’m excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.
~LeRoy Neiman
Boxing, for me, it’s the beginning of all sports. I’m willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that’s something innate in all of us.
~Omar Epps
In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.
~Joseph Barbera
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I don’t come and fight for fun. I don’t do that. I don’t like to hurt people for fun.
~Nate Diaz
I don’t fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
~Khabib Nurmagomedov (Russian MMA)
I don’t fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.
~Justin Gaethje (MMA)
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I don’t know if pressure is the right word but I enjoy the anticipation and the hype for people either wanting to see me win or lose, it really doesn’t matter to me, as long as they’re watching that fight. I really enjoy all the feelings that come with building up a fight.
~Sean O’Malley
When you’re in a car which can win every race, or fight for a win every race, that is pressure.
~Jenson Button
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
~Ben Carson
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If you want to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who’s going to be left to fight? That’s what I want to know.
~Donald Cerrone
A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness.
~Fedor Emelianenko
I ain’t asking no one to fight. I’ve got my throne. If you want it, come see me.
~Max Holloway (MMA)
You’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it ‒ it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
~Floyd Mayweather, Jr
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Sometimes, there’s a fine line between bravery and utter stupidity. The day I decided to climb into a boxing ring for a professional fight was probably on the side of stupidity.
~Andrew Flintoff (tv presenter)
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There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That’s it.
~Niki Lauda
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you ‒ until you get your revenge.
~Muhammad Ali
I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won’t say anything a dignified man won’t say.
~Mike Tyson
I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
~Mike Tyson
There doesn’t need to be hatred after a fight, because it’s all said and done. I’m cool with a lot of my opponents in the UFC. There’s people I’ve fought who were my friends in kickboxing tournaments and after we were still cool.
~Israel Adesanya
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I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
~Diego Maradona (Argentine fútbol)
A true champion will fight through anything.
~Floyd Mayweather, Jr
If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
~Lou Holtz
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When I came into this business, there was a bar set for me. My goal is to push it as high as I can to make my family’s legacy even stronger. To add to the history that’s already been created. So for me, it’s a huge challenge that I’m willing to fight for every single day.
~Roman Reigns (wrestler)
I’m a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That’s all we do: we fight.
~Tyson Fury
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We come bulletproof in Ireland. We’re reared tough, and we fight.
~Conor McGregor
Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster.
~Khabib Nurmagomedov (Russian MMA)
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I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round. Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.
~Chael Sonnen
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Every time you win, you get another fight. Every time you get a fight, you get promotion, marketing, and media. Those things are what makes stars.
~Chael Sonnen
I’m a prize fighter. Titles don’t pay bills. I fight for money. I’m making money. They’re making money. Everybody’s making money. That’s what this is all about.
~Brock Lesnar
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I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.
~Nate Diaz
Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn’t wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn’t be in the sport.
~Nate Diaz
I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I’ve got a bright little future ahead of me ‒ especially if I don’t fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It’s not my idea of a good time.
~Nate Diaz (MMA)
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Very few people could make me fight out of my system. Burley was one.
~Archie Moore
I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.
~Muhammad Ali
And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and – my father is a big fight fan – and I said, ‘Dad, I got a couple of days off and I’m getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
~Wilt Chamberlain (7′ 1″, NBA)
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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
~Mike Tyson
I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.
~Mike Tyson
I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it.
~Mike Tyson
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
~Franklin D Roosevelt
I’m not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.
~Mark McGrath
When I was a kid, I wanted to fight Joe Louis. But I think if I had seen Mike Tyson at that time, I would have said, ‘Nah, I don’t want to fight him.’ He’s deadly.
~Jake LaMotta
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Either I’m going out on my shield or you’re going out on your shield. That’s just what it is. I go out there and fight. I see an opening, I take it. You make a mistake, I take it.
~Anthony Johnson (MMA)
If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can’t make mistakes.
~Floyd Mayweather, Jr
There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself.
~Georges St-Pierre
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You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.
~Clint Eastwood
I question myself every day. That’s what I still find motivating about this. I don’t have the answers, I don’t pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.
~Andre Agassi
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From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance… Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that ‒ fight.
~Pep Guardiola
We’ve always got to fight to the end and never give up no matter what the score is or how much time is left.
~Andrew Wiggins
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
~Bjorn Borg
That’s one thing you learn in sports. You don’t give up; you fight to the finish.
~Louis Zamperini
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~Sam Cutler-Kreutz: Flounder (9:45) karmic injustice
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~Even Hafnor: Fun Factory (11:07) …married much?
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~MAGNETFILM: The Gunfighter • Eric Kissack (8:49) reprised by right of title, and just because
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I don’t write polite letters. I don’t like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
~Roy Cohn
You’re in the game of life to fight. If you’re in business, and you’re not aggressively building, you shouldn’t be in.
~Jon Huntsman, Sr
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Almost everybody thinks that the fight is about ideology. Everybody will tell you, ‘Well, the fighting is all about the Middle East.’ ‘Well, it’s about Muslims starting jihad.’ ‘It’s about terrorism.’ ‘It’s about this or that.’ And no, it’s not. It’s about money.
~Roger Waters
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
~Thomas Friedman
Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.
~Ai Weiwei
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All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.
~Jiddu Krishnamurti
…when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny’s. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don’t need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
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We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That’s what families care about.
~Jodi Rell
We developed microfinance to fight loan sharks ‒ I was telling people don’t go to loan sharks – not trying to take advantage and make money for myself. I would be a junior loan shark if I did… It is not a panacea.
~Muhammad Yunus
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I never trust a fighting man who doesn’t smoke or drink.
~William Halsey
I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.
~Jesse James
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Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
~Johnny Cash
You have to be prepared to fight and finish your own battles.
~Jim Harbaugh
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The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won’t hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.
~ASAP Rocky
I’ll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I’m going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
~Ferdinand Marcos
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
~William McFee
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
~Whitney Houston
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I know how lucky I am, and I am aware that I have to fight the perception that I am also a spoiled brat.
~Freddie Fox
I’m going to make my own heaven. I’m going to struggle for it. I’m going to fight to earn everything I dream about.
~Francis Ngannou
My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
~Vin Diesel
My owner is life and that’s what I fight for.
~Pitbull
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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
~Andrew Cuomo
I think segregation is bad, I think it’s wrong, it’s immoral. I’d fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don’t need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.
~Clarence Thomas
Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can’t we try something new and not be seen as suspect?
~Donald Glover
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
~Paul Robeson
You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
~Bobby Seale
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§ MUSIC:
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
~Ansel Adams
The greatest lesson I’ve learned is that you have to fight and continue to strive for greatness, as nothing great ever comes easily.
~Natalya Neidhart
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
~Luciano Pavarotti
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I’m naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
~Cameron Diaz
I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff’s always my favorite.
~Travis Fimmel
I’d rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.
~Johnny Depp
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I’d say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I’d only be in action films, but I’m interested in a more varied career than that.
~Famke Janssen
I’m fighting the label of “Black” actress simply because it’s very limiting in people’s eyes, especially people who are making movies.
~Whoopi Goldberg
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They’re so not me. That’s why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress.
~Helena Bonham Carter
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When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
~Chuck Norris
I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.
~Loretta Young
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
~Cillian Murphy
As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I’ve never heard one say, ‘No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.’ They will always say, ‘You don’t like him? I’ve got somebody else.’ They’re totally spineless.
~Orson Welles
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What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don’t give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it’s always darkest before the dawn.
~Orson Bean
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
~Michelangelo Antonioni
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I think there’s a lot of interesting stuff on TV. I feel much more optimistic about TV than I do about movies. There will always be good movies but I think, for the most part, it’s always going to be a huge fight to get those movies made. TV is the best place to be as a writer, I think.
~Alan Ball
It’s the business of movies, it’s the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it’s the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It’s just not that fun.
~Matt Stone
I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.
~Tom Berenger
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Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
~Alex Winter
With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
~Maurice Jarre
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Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
~Billy Corgan
We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we’re very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.
~Keith Emerson
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I’m a big collector of vinyl – I have a record room in my house – and I’ve always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I’m writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
~Quentin Tarantino
The song ‘Tyler Durden‘ is about the movie ‘Fight Club,’ so obviously, it’s not a personal experience, but I love that song. It’s my favorite song.
~Madison Beer
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
~Havelock Ellis
I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.
~El DeBarge
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I don’t fight my ability to sing sad songs: it’s what I am good at, so I must be built for that.
~Patty Griffin
I’m a rock god? I’m five foot seven. I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That’s how I became tough ‒ I learned to pick up anything and fight back… A rock god!
~Roger Daltrey
I like Bob Marley’s attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn’t go to play, he went to conquer.
~Jon Fishman
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~The Decemberists: This Is Why We Fight (4:16) if war has a reason
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~Beastie Boys: Fight For Your Right (4:01) …to party
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~REO Speedwagon: Can’t Fight This Feeling (4:51) soft rock classic
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~Tracy Chapman: Born To Fight (2:43) turning anger into anthem
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~Post-Moderne: Colleen Brown • Fight fight fight (2:52) fight as love component
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~Rava Studios: Nickelback • Fight for All the Wrong Reasons (3:20) sword fight bonanza
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Never go to bed mad — stay up and fight.
~Phyllis Diller
I’d think, ’In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.’ Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn’t be married if your that kind of person.
~George Clooney
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.
~Jack Nicholson
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
~William Congreve
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It’s funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don’t like the way you look.
~Chris Robinson
It’s kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.
~Ron Livingston
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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
~Hedy Lamarr
When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
~Rube Goldberg
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I don’t believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it’s really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
~Olivia Thirlby
You don’t need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
~Barry Goldwater
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At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn’t really see fighting.
~Kato Kaelin (OJ & Nicole Brown Simpson)
I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.
~Abraham Lincoln
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I’ve been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell.
~Loretta Lynn
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We’re like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
~Barbara Mandrell
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
~Carnie Wilson
Your lips were tiny pink pillows,
and when we kissed it was like a pillow fight…
the kind you have when you feel completely comfortable
and belonging with another human soul.
~Kanaan
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For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.
~Ezra Miller
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn’t have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
~Jane Fonda
My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn’t mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it’s good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.
~Joni Mitchell
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My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.
~Julius ‘Judy’ Johnson
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He’s a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn’t speak to him for 10 years.
~Larry Elder
I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.
~Liam Payne
The ‘Tough Man’ contests were for 21-year-olds, but I weighed 150 pounds at 13, so I got a fake ID card and entered. My dad and uncles had given me an edge, so having a boxing background made it easier because a lot of the older guys didn’t know how to fight.
~Tommy Morrison
My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad‒and he’s screaming right-wing, so there you are.
~Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can’t.
~Rodney Dangerfield
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And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you.
~Sanford I Weill (banker)
I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
~Princess Diana
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If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
~Ron Finley
Our mom was a super strident, capable, and strong individual. I think because she was a military wife in the Marine Corps, she had to push back the things that she believed, and she had to really scrape and fight to have her space.
~Nancy Wilson
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Everyone knows that if you’ve got a brother, you’re going to fight.
~Liam Gallagher
I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I’ll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.
~Stevie Nicks
On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn’t have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.
~Debi Mazar
We fight a lot, you know, but that’s family. We may be dysfunctional but we’re still family.
~Star Jones
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
~Gary Becker
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
~Clara Zetkin
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
~Bob Geldof
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There’s a lot of things that go on when you’re on tour that cannot be controlled. I’m not even talking about myself, but of course there’s sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
~Peter Steele
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
~Barry McCaffrey
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My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don’t fight that much now. I don’t look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you’re a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything… I mean it’s your mother, so I lost my mind.
~Shia LaBeouf
I’m sure everything has a bearing on what I’m doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there’s lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that’s about the education level we had in the family.
~Muhammad Yunus (Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate)
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
~Garry Kasparov
When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the ’70s and ’80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
~Patricia Ireland
The idea of winning a doctor’s degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
~Elizabeth Blackwell (a first in US medicine)
Whatever your fight, don’t be ladylike.
~Mary Harris Jones
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait‒you can kick their ass right now.
~Cameron Diaz
If you have to fight a crowd of boys, it’s best to go for the biggest one. That way you won’t have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect.
~Suzanne Vega
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
~Agnes Smedley (activist/journalist)
I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.
~Amy Winehouse
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
~Dwight D Eisenhower
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
~H L Mencken
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.
~Dee Dee Myers
Men spend their whole lives showing that they’re strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.
~George Weinberg
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Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.
~Emmeline Pankhurst
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?
~Elizabeth Cady Stanton (suffragist)
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We all fight over what the label ‘feminism’ means but for me it’s about empowerment. It’s not about being more powerful than men – it’s about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It’s about very basic things. It’s not a badge like a fashion item.
~Annie Lennox
Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
~Isabel Allende
I’m not limited by my gender, and I don’t think anyone else should be either. Because I am the age I am and I sort of rode the crest of the first profound post-suffragette feminists, I wasn’t fighting to burn my bra. Those women fought that fight just seconds before I came into womanhood.
~Ellen Barkin
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In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
~Marlo Thomas
Women rule the world. It’s not really worth fighting because they know what they’re doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
~Jon Bon Jovi
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CAT is a mighty modest looking varmint — as meek as Moses around the house in the day time, but when a gentleman cat gets his fighting clothes on — I mean in full evening dress — and goes out into the highways and hedges and backyards and barns, there is something doing.
~Josh Billings
You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does ‒ but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you’ll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it’s the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it’s the sickening grammar they use.
~Mark Twain
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
~author unknown
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Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can’t talk. The man can’t fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he’s gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons.
~Muhammad Ali
When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.
~Mr T
I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
~Mike Tyson
Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.
~George Foreman
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
~Rodney Dangerfield
A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won’t get a bikini wax.
~Rita Rudner
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
~George Carlin
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
~Steven Wright
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, “I’m going to mop the floor with your face.” I said, “You’ll be sorry.” He said, “Oh, yeah? Why?” I said, “Well, you won’t be able to get into the corners very well.”
~Emo Philips
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they’ve got nothing to lose.
~Robin Williams
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Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, because they say fans fight over them and they get hurt. In fact, the Florida Marlins said that’s why they never hit any home runs. It’s a safety issue.
~Jay Leno
Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
~Alan King
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
~Mark Twain
About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you’re fighting temptation.
~Tom Wilson
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee – or laugh.
~Robert Orben
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I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
~Muhammad Ali
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
~Blaise Pascal
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
~Miguel de Unamuno
We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.
~Mr T
It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they’ve made their peace with death.
~Peter Thiel
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Ah, great it is to
believe the dream
as we stand in youth
by the starry stream;
but a greater thing
is to fight life through
and say at the end,
the dream is true!
~Edwin Markham
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Truck Side 66
© David Lorenz Winston
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The first rule of a pillow fight is, we don’t talk about pillow fights.
~Brad Anderson
The first rule of Pillow Fight Club? “Tell everyone.”
~Pillow Fight Club
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Unfortunately, the typical inner child is petrified of loud voices, Mylanta, and severe PMS, and therefore goes into hiding in times of stress. Should this happen to yours, you may need to acquire a dog, whip up some cupcakes, or initiate a pillow fight, since no inner child can resist any of these.
~Nancy Shulins
We both fell into relieved giggles. The laughs continued in tickling until we had worked into an all out pillow brawl.
~J J M Czep,
From what I could tell by the giggling and banging, there was a pillow fight of epic proportion in progress.
~Gerrit Gorter
When our bed is made it’s covered in forty pillows like we’re stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.
~Jim Gaffigan
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I remembered that something I’d said struck her as so laughable that she had picked up a pillow and whacked me in the head with it, which in turn had led to a pillow fight…
~Richard Delgado
Love is… when the only fights you have are pillow fights.
~Kim Grove Casali & Bill Asprey
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The best pillows for whacking are the big, fluffy sleeping kind… The best pillows for hurling are zipperless couch pillows. (Why do you think they call them throw pillows?)… Younger children love when you fall over dramatically after being hit.
~Anthony T DeBenedet, MD & Lawrence J Cohen, PhD
Everybody says pillow fights are good for children but a bit wearing on the pillows.
~Helen Marvin
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He downed the shot and it hit him like a pillow fight. He felt gently bashed and full of wonder.
~Lisa Moore
If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows ‒ pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.
~Alice Walker
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Always jump in the puddles! Always skip alongside the flowers. Never turn down a good pillow fight.
~Terri Guillemets
A pillow fight and a good night’s sleep had done wonders.
~Janis Mackay
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she’s had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
~Carlos Fuentes
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That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
~George Foreman
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Why is it that people who are troubled with insomnia are generally so proud of it?
~Evan Esar (20,000 Quips & Quotes, 1968 [So true! I think it’s kinda like being proud of your black eye after a fight. ~Terri Guillemets]
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I don’t think lying has any ultimate justification. I don’t think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That’s one of the challenges in a way.
~Andy Garcia
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The sea does not belong to despots. Upon its surface men can still exercise unjust laws, fight, tear one another to pieces, and be carried away with terrestrial horrors. But at thirty feet below its level, their reign ceases, their influence is quenched, and their power disappears.
~Jules Verne
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It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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@Writers Platform
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
~Wislawa Szymborska
A catless writer is almost inconceivable; even Ernest Hemingway, manly follower of the hunting trophy and the bullfight, lived waist-deep in cats. It’s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
~Barbara Holland
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
~David Guterson
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Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it’s sunny, the next day it’s raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.
~Asghar Farhadi
I discovered the National Coalition Against Censorship when I felt totally alone in my fight to protect intellectual freedom, and that group changed my life. I was no longer alone.
~Judy Blume
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You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‘The A-Team‘ ‒ if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.
~Terry Pratchett
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Do you know what a duvet is?… It’s a blanket. Just a blanket. Now why do guys like you and I know what a duvet is? Is this essential to our survival, in the hunter-gatherer sense of the word?
~Jim Uhls (Fight Club, script)
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.
~Ama Ata Aidoo
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
~Walter Cronkite
I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they’re watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.
~Bob Woodward
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
~Heinrich Heine
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
~Mark Twain
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Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can’t stop it. You can’t fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can’t go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.
~Marla Gibbs
Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don’t have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.
~Dana White
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The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~Frank Serpico
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
~A K Antony
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At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
I just don’t want to die without a few scars.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
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…you’re not how much money you’ve got in the bank. You’re not your job. You’re not your family, and you’re not who you tell yourself…. You’re not your name…. You’re not your problems…. You’re not your age…. You are not your hopes…
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
“If you don’t know what you want,” the doorman said, “you end up with a lot you don’t.”
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
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Prewritten Prompt: fight
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No, when the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something. God stoops o’er his head,
Satan looks up between his feet—both tug—
He’s left, himself, i’ the middle: the soul wakes
And grows. Prolong that battle through his life!
Never leave growing till the life to come!
~Robert Browning
When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.
~Phil Knight
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Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
~George Whitefield
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith – even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
~Karen Armstrong
For the most part, Islam is about peace. It’s dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we’ll fight in the name of Allah. We’re not going to let you disrespect our prophet.
~Ghostface Killah
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
~Abu Bakr
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I wouldn’t fight for religious freedom because I won’t fight for idolatry. Why would I fight for the devil to have as many false religions as possible and all of them to be available to everyone?
~John MacArthur
It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
~Wayne Dyer
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight,
His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.
~Alexander Pope
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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
~Helen Keller
It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.
~Lydia M Child
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I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won’t let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
~Malcolm X
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
~Plato
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Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
~J C Ryle
For my own part, I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will.
~William James
It feels like a real fight, — as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears. For such a half-wild, half-saved universe our nature is adapted.
~William James
I don’t have an end game. Being a celestial being, I live for the moment to fight the Great War, and that is to light the darkness.
~Matt Hardy
As we become purer channels for God’s light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
~Marianne Williamson
Let each dawn find us courageous, brought closer,
heeding the lights before the fight is over.
~Amanda Gorman
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Even though I don’t believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.
~Amber Heard
Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
~Samuel Butler
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It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn’t claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
~Scott Stapp (Creed)
How do I know that God is good? I don’t.
I gamble like a man. I bet my life.
Upon one side of life’s great war. I must,
I can’t stand out. I must take sides. The man
Who is a neutral in this fight is not
A man. He’s bulk and body without breath…
A fool. Weak tea!… I want to live, live out…
I must have God… I’d drink myself blind drunk,
And see blue snakes if I could not look up
To see blue skies, and hear God speaking through
The silence of the stars. How is it proved?
It isn’t proved, you fool, it can’t be proved.
How can you prove a victory before
It’s won?…
~G A Studdert Kennedy
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He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
~Friedrich Nietzsche
The world of superheroes is black and white; the world of monsters is not. Sometimes you need evil to fight evil.
~Donna Langley
But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
~Isaiah Berlin
As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
~George R R Martin
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There’s a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it’s interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it’s totally different. It’s based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
~Bruce Lipton
But the name Ilomantis ginsburgae also honors Ginsburg’s “relentless fight for gender equality,” according to a press release… Because, as it happens, the scientists are fighting for equality of the sexes, insect-style.
~Camila Domonoske
You can’t fight for your rights if you don’t know what they are.
~John Roberts
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I believe that education is the greatest equalizer; thus, I will continue to fight to equalize the playing field in an educational atmosphere that is not always level!
~Erin Gruwell
If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
~Virginia Woolf
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I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I’ve been fighting so hard to have an education. It’s been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros’ pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
~Emma Watson
I hope I’ve been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you’re committed to fight for your education, that anything’s possible.
~Susana Martinez
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If they would teach us from the time we’re little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn’t fight so much.
~Shirley MacLaine
Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
~Marian Wright Edelman
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Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law’s flat.
~Maggie Smith
When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.
~Christopher Hitchens
When you’re getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it’s just you, feeling like you’re in a fight against something that you can’t control.
~Taboo
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
~Lance Armstrong (metastatic testicular cancer spread to abdomen, lungs and brain)
You know, once you’ve stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.
~David H Koch
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With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
~Kevin Whately
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Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, ‘It’s not just that it’s bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn’t even really give you a good buzz?’
~Katherine Heigl
Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope ‒ and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
~Bob Riley
Addiction is a monster, and it’s a really difficult monster to fight.
~Stephanie Beatriz
I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
~Kurt Cobain
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Arthritis, Crohn’s disease, psoriasis, depression ‒ all of those diseases are a result of our neglected biochemistry. We need to be stimulated to help fight disease. Cold is a great stimulator.
~Wim Hof
A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.
~Lee Haney
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I don’t really remember, but I’m positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I’m sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn’t go out, or I wasn’t invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.
~Jean Nidetch
You kind of did fight for food, so I filled up my plate. My dad would make us finish it, and I’d sit there crying because I’d have to finish all that food. I think that forced my stomach to stretch.
~Steven Adams
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We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
~Jim Uhls (Fight Club, script)
Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer… Maybe self-destruction is the answer.
~Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, book)
For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society’s method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
~Judy Collins
The leering face of guilt continuously scorned my want of courage. I needed humility, which is the foundation of courage. Guilt and courage were the soldiers fighting a war in me.
~Joanne Mazzotta (of suicide)
Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.
~Frank Bruno
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Homey don’t quit. What else are you gonna do? It’s like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it’s over they check the clock and go home. That’s how it goes.
~Chubby Checker
If I must have an ill, may it be real,
That I may meet it eye to eye and fight,
And wheresoever it may strength reveal
Get after it with all my main and might.
~John Kendrick Bangs
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
~Paracelsus
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§ The Exercise:
storyline #4
tired and retired
defines the ending
flat tire and retired
not the same meaning
hard or soft landing
fight or flight required
frenemy depending
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bleak prospect
water battered rock
rain scattered sky
suggests a walk
when tearing up to cry
facing dread eternity
fighting for serenity
feeling life’s brevity
alone forever when you die
~
it’s complicated
misguided fight
for life
chained to pain
endless strife
to continue
not sure, quite
curious question tho
Oh! that’s right
the reason:
curiosity,
demon halo
trident angel
toxic cure as
servant master
since it fueled
then it fought
already won
that fight
alive
~
same page but different
the push and pull
in and out
back and forth
tug of war
when the knot became not
when the i-am-so-in…
becomes isn’t, anymore
are thinking love and marriage
yet reflect the twin effects of war
where dreams of merging empire
think to conquer by a smothering
local history as resistance
rich identity as subversive
forget the chronicles and lesson
genius rule of genghis khan
who knew to tax the richness
leave unique identity alone
~
salinger
“I have my reasons.”
not to be bothered
fight against fame
call it anonymity
loneliness
blest by the spectrum
a solitude craving
insoluble in crowds
~
surviving beauty
resist dissolving
fight being absorbed
the disintegration
that follows surrender
the dangers of beauty
that brook no resistance
gravity well of emotions
mistaken for love
captain of attentions
no other offers
itself temptation
sufficient alone
~
the ladder
episodic increments
discrete measures of moment
incremental life
stacked memories
layered with fights
~
finding out
the dawn long past
past sunset
now dusk of the day
crossing into darkness
then night, lights out
the no-fight blackness
or only the slackness
before consequence
the judgments
of finding out
~
5s ‘n 7s
planned obsolescence
pranked as retirement:
fight to find reason
kick back and enjoy
give back in return
try to be useful
flee memories that burn
~
flight of an arrow
size of a sparrow
spying the narrows
photo the perils
humor, pure gallows
fighting for peace
managing quarrels
~
delectable fates
beauty on a date
melons on a plate
felon in a fight
likely not so great
detectable hate
electable: checkmate
~
Emotionally crippled
Tested love type: Avoidance
Rat for Art (prop business card)
Suggests Beauty play the part
Fight to heal then break his heart
~
stray cat on a path
dog on the road pass
enemies at peace
fight’s wired fence between
young lass, meet-cute scene
~
strive for quality
fight or all equality
call it sanity
kindness opportunity
do… as you do unto me
~
foam as in ferment
fight’s detonating moment
future from foment
history poured into molds
diamonds buried in cement
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
~Alfred Adler
~
We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
~Charles Glover Barkla
The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.
~Max Stirner
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If you want a name, you have to fight death.
~Milkha Singh
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
~Aldous Huxley
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
~George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose.
~Billie Holiday
~
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
~Alexandre Dumas
Don’t fight forces, use them.
~R Buckminster Fuller
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Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
~Norman Ralph Augustine
People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
~Norman Ralph Augustine
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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
~Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
~Robert Browning
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~John Stuart Mill
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
~Franz Kafka
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I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
~Serena Williams
My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
~Edward Teller
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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.
~William E Gladstone
First fight. Then fiddle.
~Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Olio
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The Salmagundi
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