"The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall."
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"Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!"
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"One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more."
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"Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods."
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"President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well."
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"People say, "Oh, we ought to fight for animal rights." We fought for human rights, but even if humans have rights, they can still be horribly abused and are every day. You don't have to go to some far off land, far away place; we have a lot of child abuse in our own society."
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"Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way."
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"...it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?"
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"Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation."
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"Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities."
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"This isn’t the first time I’ve faced death, and I don’t intend for it to be the last,” I said, repeating the same words he’d told me before fighting in that fateful duel. “I’ve chosen to live a dangerous life, but it’s who I am, and that wouldn’t change even if we’d never met."
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"If these were my last moments on earth, I’d spend them fighting to save him with everything I had. If our roles were reversed, I knew he’d do the same"."
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"You hold the ones you love close and fight the battles you can win, and that, Kitten, is how it is."
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"We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win."
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"Tank's a fantastic human being, as far as fighting's concerned."
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"God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going to have to fight for equality."
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"Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear."
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"Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food."
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"The American presidency will demand more than ringing manifestos issued from the rear of the battle. It will demand that the President place himself in the very thick of the fight; that he care passionately about the fate of the people he leads ."
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"Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull."
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