"Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit."
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"Obviously the whole Wayward thing hasn't been explained to you properly. You don't have any superpowers. You can't leap over tall buildings in a single bound or fight Dark Casters with your magic cat. Basically, you're a glorified tour guide who's no better equipped to face a bunch of Dark Casters than Mary P. over here -Ridley"
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"What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!"
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"I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty."
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"Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone."
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"When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war."
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"lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems."
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"All of us were mischievous at some time or another, I more so than any of the rest. [My brother] Philbert and I kept a battle going. ... Even in our fighting, there was a feeling of brotherly union."
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"Racism is a human problem and a crime that is absolutely so ghastly that a person who is fighting racism is well within his rights to fight against it by any means necessary until it is eliminated."
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"I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness."
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"Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off."
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"The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it."
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"The end of the story of Batman is he's dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn't work that way. It can't. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop."
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"When you understand just how big the Universe is, you then realize that only idiots fight over an area of space called land."
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"We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it."
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"We’ll go.” Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. “We’ll fight."
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"Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means."
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"To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures."
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"We'd like to apologise to the fans, the chairman, the staff and everyone connected to Newcastle"
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"I want results when I fight."
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