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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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"At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below." »Theodosia Garrison
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"The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind." »Heinrich Heine
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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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"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country." »Homer
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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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"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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"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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"'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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle 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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"You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round." »James Corbett
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"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." »Lee Iacocca
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"If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia." »Hans Albrecht Bethe
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"Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things." »Robert Smith
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"I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." »Sun-tzu
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