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"What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Kindness and compassion toward all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against animals, is not the exclusive province of any one culture or community of people. Racism, economic deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bull fighting and rodeos are cut from the same fabric: violence. Only when we have become nonviolent toward all life will we have learned to live well ourselves." »Cesar Chavez, letter
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"... it's simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting." »Erma Bombeck
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"Never let a little man to sit on a big chair; that would be a big disaster!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere!" »Worry
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"You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants." »Stephen King
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"Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas." »Rolfe Neill
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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in." »Helen Hayes
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"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair." »Arnold Toynbee
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"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"If it had got four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies, but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. (commenting on Chinese eating habits at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund coference)" »Prince Phillip
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"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country." »Homer
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"My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go." »Oscar Wilde
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." »Plato
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"Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome." »Marion Parker
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"It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets." »Dennis Martin
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"The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting." »Sun-tzu
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"Love is everything it's cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for." »Erica Jong
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"'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight." »Ingrid Weir
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"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." »Thucydides
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"“Sure a boxer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; I once met a Headmaster called Meekin on a plane and he said:if boxers all owned doctorates then teachers would need to do a whole lot less fighting.”" »Héctor López
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"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." »Eliel Saarinen
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"During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books." »Bill Maher
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"A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting." »Rahul Katragadda
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"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting." »Maxims of Ptahhotep
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"If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice." »Pan Ku
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"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
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"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
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