"the wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses"
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"That's always been in my mind my metaphor for a team working really hard on something they're passionate about. It's that through the team, through that group of incredibly talented people bumping up against each other, having arguments, having fights sometimes, making some noise, and working together they polish each other and they polish the ideas, and what comes out are these really beautiful stones."
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"People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things."
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"We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to."
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"Perfection in war lies in so sapping your opponents will that he surrenders without fighting."
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"If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight."
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"The best general is the one who never fights."
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"If fighting is sure to result in victory, then 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."
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"Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of men! If they know there is no alternative, they will fight to the death."
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"It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic."
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"I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea."
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"For me, I like to imagine being successful. I like to imagine the end, which is success. I envision it, where I can actually see it happening. Going into the ring, seeing the fight happen, seeing me winning that belt, seeing me back in my dressing room celebrating with a slice of cake, which I always had. And the same with meetings. I do prepare though; that confidence comes from preparation, because that fear is in the back of your head of not doing well, of not saying the right thing or having the right information. That's where the preparation comes in for me."
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"I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care."
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"National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane."
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"He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself."
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"forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums"
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"Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums."
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"A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death."
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"Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
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"It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists."
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