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• It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Military, Islamic, Exaggeration Is

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• The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

  Ho Chi Minh

  Pregnancy, Men, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  War, Bombarded By, Violence

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.232, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  War, Order, Two

  "Persian Letters". No. 95, 1721.

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• Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile neighboring governments.

  John Boehner

  Clouds, Government, Israel

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• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Men, Land, Desert

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.59, e-artnow

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• Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Reality, Organization, Decision

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• The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Passion, Views, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Two: The Path Is the Goal; Training the Mind; Glimpses of Abhidharma; Glimpses of Shu nyata; Glimpses of Mahayana; Selected Writings”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

  George H. W. Bush

  Land, Iraq, Invasion

  "A World Transformed". Book by George H. W. Bush, September 14, 1998.

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• The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

  Alfred Adler

  Truth, Lying, Reality

  Problems of Neurosis (1929) ch. 2

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• I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Thinking, Talent, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was just one year ago that the world saw this new, invigorated United Nations in action as this Council stood fast against aggression and stood for the sacred principles enshrined in the U.N. Charter. And now it's time to step forward again, make the internal reforms, accelerate the revitalization, accept the responsibilities necessary for a vigorous and effective United Nations. I want to assure the members of this Council and the Secretary-General, the United Nations can count on our full support in this task.

  George H. W. Bush

  Responsibility, Years, America

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• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Military, Congratulations

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Independent, Men

  "Civilisation, War and Death".

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• The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Will To Survive, Marine Corps

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• There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Civilization, Political

  Reinhold Niebuhr (1967). “Love and justice: selections from the shorter writings of Reinhold Niebuhr”

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• For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.

  Thomas Mann

  Positive, Simple, Endurance

  Thomas Mann (1965). “Death in Venice”

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• Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Powerful, Yield, Demand

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Numbers, Vietnam, Mindless

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.211, Best Books on

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• I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.

  Lizzy Caplan

  School, Character, Mean

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Im glad I have an outlet. I dont think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

  Ryan Gosling

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Aquariums, Essentials, Care

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

  Stanislav Grof

  Mass Destruction, Greed, Humanity

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Xenophobia, Mean, Land

  "I lost a reference with whom I '...want to be someone else but without ceasing to be[me]...'" by PEDRO74, ireport.cnn.com. March 27, 2012.

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