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Pete Carroll Football Coach
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"I think the stress of having to continue to fight the fight day in and day out, whatever it is, that which keeps you driving. You can get to a place where you no longer want to do that."

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Peter Andre Singer, Television Personality
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"Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Management and union may be likened to that serpent of the fables who on one body had two heads that fighting each other with poisoned fangs, killed themselves."

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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting."

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Plato Philosopher
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"People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them."

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Plato Philosopher
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"But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power."

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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, "The enemy's ships are more than ours," replied, "For how many then wilt thou reckon me?"

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Patty Murray Politician
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"I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward."

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Dan Brown Author
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"Force a hand, the voice warned, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"The time has come when I am for everybody fighting the rebels. Let Indians fight them; let the Negroes fight them; and if you have got any strong-legged jackasses in Iwoa that can kick rebels to death, they have my hearty consent."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting."

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